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HSK
occasionally / once in a while / sometimes
HSK 5
Daniel (name)
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
Powell (name)
Qatar
not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *尔* | 尔* | *尔
thus / so / like that / you / thou
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
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
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Intel
Zanzibar
Igor
Paul (name)
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Istanbul, Turkey
angel (loanword)
Borr (Norse deity)
Ecuador
Dell
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
Nadal (name) / Rafael Nadal (1986-), Spanish tennis player
riel (Cambodian currency)
(Tw) the Seychelles
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
Chur (city in Switzerland)
Haier (PRC household appliance brand) / Hale (name)
to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally
Nobel (Prize)
Campbell (name)
(loanword) emir; amir
(name) Samuel
Kashmir
the Seychelles
(name) Cantor / Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician, founder of set theory
Baikonur (Russian space launch site in Kazakhstan)
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
Bell (person name)
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
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
Raphael
Bill (name)
Moore or Moor (name) / see also 摩爾人|摩尔人
mole (chemistry)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940–1945 and 1951–1955 / surname Churchill
Darfur, region of western Sudan
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group
Tegel (name) / Tiger (name)
Rothschild (name)
Picard (name)
Pierre, capital of South Dakota
Dakar, capital of Senegal
Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005
(loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007 / tolar, silver coin that served as the main currency of Bohemia 1520-1750
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia)
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Lille (city in France)
Berber people of North Africa
Claire (name)
Dover
Bristol port city in southwest England
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Gore (name) / Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India
Karl (name)
Jimsar county or Jimisar nahiyisi in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinjiang
Dole (name) / Bob Dole (1923-2021), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996
Nepal
Ur (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq)
Lyell (name) / Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist
see 俄而
Kashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong
Gwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
Emanuel; Immanuel (name)
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Bushehr Province of southern Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf / Bushehr, port city, capital of Bushehr Province
Patil (name) / Pratibha Patil (1934-), female Indian Congress Party politician, president of India 2007-2012
Grenoble (French town)
surname Fröbel or Froebel / Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782–1852), German pedagogue
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城)
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Vladimir
Dreyer (name) / June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
Mosul (city in Iraq)
Sennheiser (brand)
Winterthur, Switzerland
Sadr (name) / Moqtada Sadr (c. 1973-), Iraqi Shia clergyman and militia leader

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