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Paris, capital of France
(loanword) rhumba
Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
Old Barag Banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
Barclay or Berkeley (name)
(Tw) Mbabane, administrative capital of Eswatini
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
the Goldbach conjecture in number theory
Brazil
China-Pakistan (relations) / China-Bahamas
minibus
Starbucks, US coffee shop chain
Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia
harsh / savage / fierce
Albanian (person)
(Catholicism) Abraham
bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
chin
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
(Sichuan dialect) comfortable; suitable; excellent; really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb); to curry favor with
Bali (island in Indonesia)
Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
HSK 4
lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
America and Pakistan / America and Brazil / America and Panama
bus stop
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Zanzibar
(coll.) all show and no substance
Israeli-Palestinian
Cuba
Palestine
dopamine
Panama Canal
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han
to slap
Alabama, US state
Baghdad, capital of Iraq
former Kham province of Tibet, now split between Tibet and Sichuan
minibus
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
Barcelona, Spain
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
almond (loanword)
Europe / Europa
pig's tail (meat)
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) (abbr. for 九龍巴士|九龙巴士)
minibus / microbus
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
lymphatic system
Danba county (Tibetan: rong brag rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Burberry (brand)
Bath city in southwest England
Palestinian-Israeli (relations)
Bayanhot Town, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia
Barclays Bank
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
(coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
very fierce
fork (of a tree, road, argument etc) / bifurcation / fork junction
the Bahamas
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连有苦说不出
mouth (CL:張|张) / slap in the face (CL:個|个)
HSK 4
older female / woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)
Alabama, US state
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
Bahrain
baroque (loanword)
lit. to give sb a slap, then offer a sweet date (idiom) / fig. to deal harshly with sb, then offer sth by way of consolation
Pekingese (dog breed)
India and Pakistan
Balkan Peninsula
to bundle up
pekingese (dog) / (fig.) sycophant / lackey
(loanword) basa (Pangasius bocourti)
(physiology) (loanword) lymph
tight fitting / hard up (i.e. lacking money)
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出)
Panama City
(coll.) docile / well-behaved / biddable
pathetic / pitiful
Alabama, US state
pug (breed of dog)
a mute / mute; silent
Bavaria
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
to blink / to wink
Sherpa
lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one's evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain
pug (breed of dog)
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
bazaar (loanword)

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