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HSK
foundation
HSK 7-9
Minkowski (name) / Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician
wiki (Internet)
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Milwaukee (city)
(civil engineering) roadbed
phenyl group
hydroxyl group -OH
to lay a foundation
alkyl
propyl group (chemistry)
(chemistry) butyl group
(slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person
carboxyl group -COOH
Carthage
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
amino / amino group
land-based
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
Kentucky, US state
foundations (of a building) / base
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
culture medium
Zhu Zhanji, personal name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
stylobate (architecture)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Polanski (name)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
Spassky (name)
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Brzezinski (name) / Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
methyl group (chemistry)
chemical base / nucleobase
Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗 (685-762), reigned 712-756
alkoxy (chemistry)
see 搞基
Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温 (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius
asset that gives a competitive advantage; a strength / (market) niche
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
aldehyde group -COH
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
cyan / cyanide radical -CN, stable triple bond with chemical properties like halogens
free radical
peptide group / peptide unit
(loanword) corgi
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (Tw)
to lay foundations
ethoxy (chemistry)
Razumovsky (name) / Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat
alkoxy (chemistry)
substituent (chemistry)
phenoxy (chemistry)
Xiong Chengji (1887-1910), anti-Qing revolutionary and martyr
Sikorski (name) / Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007
Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006
hydroxyl radical
ethylamino group
methoxy (chemistry)
functional group (chemistry)
common erroneous form of 朱鎔基|朱镕基, Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
water-based
Maliki or Al-Maliki (name) / Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014
ethyl group (chemistry)
vinyl / vinyl group (chemistry)
acetyl radical CH3COO-
Waikiki (Hawaii)
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔, Heilongjiang
Scientology
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870 / abbr. to 普氏
common erroneous form of 朱鎔基|朱镕基, Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
nucleobase
methyalamino group
to ascend the throne
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
ketone group
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基


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