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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Pakistan
Burkina Faso
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Kentucky, US state
air base
Eskimo
alkyl
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
wiki (Internet)
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
al-Qaeda
foundation (institution supported by an endowment)
Christian
basic law (constitutional document)
plinth; base; substrate
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
base electrode (in transistor)
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(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
Kiel (German city)
genetic mutation
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
to ascend the throne
ketone group
Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology
(Tw) amino acid
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
fundamental frequency
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
methamphetamine
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
culture medium
Quito, capital of Ecuador
elementary education
foundations (of a building) / base
Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students (Tw), abbr. for 國民中學學生基本學力測驗|国民中学学生基本学力测验
kip (Laotian currency)
hydroxyl group -OH
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
asset that gives a competitive advantage; a strength / (market) niche
alkyl benzene / dodecylbenzene C18H30
mutual fund
socio-economic base / economic foundation
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei (CFCT) (abbr. for 中華民國消費者文教基金會|中华民国消费者文教基金会)
to lay foundations
Jesus Christ
basic course / core curriculum
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Vladimir
Kentucky, US state
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
elementary particle (particle physics)
personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗 (685-762), reigned 712-756
basic word
Antichrist
Polanski (name)
United Nations Children's Fund / UNICEF
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
stylobate (architecture)
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (Tw)
methoxy (chemistry)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
Henry Kissinger (1923-2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973-1977
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Jinuo ethnic group
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔, Heilongjiang
Kiribati
cyan / cyanide radical -CN, stable triple bond with chemical properties like halogens
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
Michelangelo (Tw)
amino acid
Brzezinski (name) / Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
(dental implant) abutment
to lay a foundation
(political party's) voter base / (musician's) fan base / (a business's) customer base / the funds necessary for a venture / foundation on which sth's existence depends / bedrock (in the figurative sense)
base fertilizer

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