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HSK
occasionally / once in a while / sometimes
HSK 5
Khorgos, a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Barkam, a county-level city in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, Sichuan
Daur ethnic group
Tyre (Lebanon)
Jackson Wang (1994–), Hong Kong singer, rapper and dancer, member of GOT7 and founder of Team Wang
(surname) Carlson; Carlsen; Karlsen
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Basel, Switzerland
Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年
Jalainur, a district of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia
Eiffel Tower
Overijssel, province of the Netherlands
Serbian (language)
Gaelic (language)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(loanword) hormone
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
Erfurt (German city)
(loanword) emir; amir
Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business
Malmo (Malmo city, of Sweden)
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and author of "Brave New World" 美麗新世界|美丽新世界
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爾* | 爾* | *爾
thus / so / like that / you / thou
Volga River
Mount Everest
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
(literary) (of an area) very small
(idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)
old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Istanbul, Turkey
Nobel Prize
Celt
Sherlock Holmes
to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Bolshevik
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, capital Ürümqi 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市 (short name )
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
Daur ethnic group
Paris Hilton
New South Wales (Australian state)
(loanword) golf
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
(name) Chelsea
Calcutta (India)
standing above the common crowd (idiom); outstanding / excellent and unrivaled
S&P (formerly Standard & Poor's), financial services company
(Tw) (loanword) waltz (dance)
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Ordos Desert, Inner Mongolia
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Rebiya Kadeer (1946–), Uyghur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned from 1999 to 2005, later president of the World Uyghur Congress
Kyrgyz (person)
(computing) Moore's law
Uyghur ethnic group
the Seychelles
Wales, constituent nation of UK
Ireland
Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany
Alzheimer's disease
Bolton (name)
Republic of Ireland
Azores Islands
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Northern Ireland
Melbourne, Australia
Wilson (name)
Balkan
delta (Greek letter Δ, δ)
Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
Darfur, region of western Sudan
Alcatel, old company name
cartel (loanword)
Harbin, sub-provincial city and capital of Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
Calvin (name)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
Mars (Roman God of War)
Kyrgyz ethnic group / also written 柯爾克孜族|柯尔克孜族
(Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia

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