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HSK
occasionally / once in a while / sometimes
HSK 5
Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian
Qatar
(textiles) (loanword) lyocell
Dakar, capital of Senegal
Limassol, Cyprus / Lemesos
Horinger county in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
Tamil
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
Kashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
Zanzibar
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *尔* | 尔* | *尔
thus / so / like that / you / thou
(loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007 / tolar, silver coin that served as the main currency of Bohemia 1520-1750
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
Bell (person name)
Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Intel
Nobel (Prize)
Baker or Becker (name)
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Istanbul, Turkey
Frazer (name)
Hall (name)
(Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
Igor
Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
Daniel (name)
Claire (name)
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), German philosopher
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Kiel (German city)
Karl (name)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *尔* | 尔* | *尔
variant of 爾|尔
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
Basel, Switzerland
Gore (name) / Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
Sennheiser (brand)
Maribor, 2nd biggest city in Slovenia
(name) Michael
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城)
Newcastle (place name)
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
Kohl (name) / Helmut Kohl (1930-2017), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Pierre, capital of South Dakota
(literary) to smile
Bill (name)
Gaelic / Geier or Gayer (name)
Chur (city in Switzerland)
Campbell (name)
Kashmir
Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936)
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
Haier (PRC household appliance brand) / Hale (name)
Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005
Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate
Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
angel (loanword)
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
riel (Cambodian currency)
Ecuador
Niger (country in West Africa) / Niger River, West Africa
Raphael
Paul (name)
State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament
Senegal
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Tours (city in France)
Nepal
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
the Seychelles
Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
Andorra
(name) Pierre
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
(name) Fisher or Fischer
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
cartel (loanword)
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Mosul (city in Iraq)
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
Bangalore, capital of southwest Indian state Karnataka 卡納塔克邦|卡纳塔克邦

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