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HSK
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan
fort
HSK 7-9
Luxembourg
Hamburg (German city)
(loanword) hamburger
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
ancient castle
Kaposvár in southwest Hungary, capital of Somogy County 紹莫吉州|绍莫吉州
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), German physicist
castle / rook (chess piece)
(loanword) hamburger
Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
Petersburg (place name) / Saint Petersburg, Russia
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
barrier reef
Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies
Brandenburg
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
submarine sandwich
Nuremberg, town in Bavaria, Germany
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堡* | 堡* | *堡
(bound form) fortress; stronghold / (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names) / (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡)
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  *堡* | 堡* | *堡
village (used in place names)
Pressburg (Slovakia)
Loughborough, English city
Hongsibao district of Wuzhong city 吳忠市|吴忠市, Ningxia
Salzburg
Marburg virus
(name) Gutenberg / Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press / Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale
fort / fortress / CL:
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Duisburg, city in the Ruhr 魯爾區|鲁尔区, Germany
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(computing) bastion host; jump server
Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)
(Tw) Istanbul
Wubu County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
Johannesburg, South Africa
Humboldt
(military) pillbox; blockhouse / humorous way of writing 屌爆
Gothenburg (city in Sweden)
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
Heidelberg
Königsberg, Baltic port city, capital of East Prussia (until WWII)
Red Fort (historic building in Delhi, India)
(Tw) (old) Big Mac hamburger (now referred to in Taiwan as 大麥克|大麦克)
village or town surrounded by earthen walls; village / Taiwan pr. [bao3 zi5]
Württemberg, region of southwest Germany, former state around Stuttgart 斯圖加特|斯图加特
Loughborough University
bunker
Wolfsburg
beachhead (military)
Burger King Whopper
small fortress; fortified compound
Limburg, Netherlands / Limbourg, Belgium
bridgehead (military) / stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory / bridge tower (ornamental structure at either end of a bridge) / (fig.) gateway (place that provides access to other places beyond it) / bridgehead (key location serving as a base for further expansion)
Baden-Württemberg, southwest German state, capital Stuttgart 斯圖加特|斯图加特
Wubu County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
Burger King (fast food restaurant)
bunker (underground fortification)
Strasbourg
Königsberg, Baltic port city, capital of East Prussia (until WWII)
Hexipu, a town in Yongchang County 永昌縣|永昌县, Jinchang 金昌, Gansu
Heidelberg
(name) Attenborough / David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
(Tw) McDonald's McMuffin or similar breakfast sandwich made with an English muffin
Project Gutenberg
Hongsibao district of Wuzhong city 吳忠市|吴忠市, Ningxia
Pangjiabao district of Zhangjiakou city, Hebei
Magdeburg (German city)
sandcastle
Sarpsborg (city in Østfold, Norway)
Williamsburg, Virginia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堡* | 堡* | *堡
variant of 鋪|铺 / used in place names


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