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


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