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mouth (CL:張|张) / slap in the face (CL:個|个)
HSK 4
bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
HSK 4
(coll.) large bus / coach / (abbr. for 大型巴士)
HSK 4
(coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
Habahe county or Qaba nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Subaru
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
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  *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 / abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
Zanzibar
Bilbao (city in Spain)
Paris, capital of France
to blink / to wink
Panama
dry / parched / dull / insipid
lymph (loanword) / lymphatic
Baden (region in Germany)
Barack Obama (1961-), US Democrat politician, president 2009-2017
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
Kiribati
samba (dance) (loanword)
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市, Xinjiang
chin
lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one's evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain
(suffix) very / extremely
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona) / Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
baroque (loanword)
Banan, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆
Brazil
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
(name) Sebastian
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher
cabaret (loanword)
Sparta
Pasteur
Mt Ba in eastern Sichuan
Lebanon
Cuba
Basel, Switzerland
Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway
to stutter
Starbucks, US coffee shop chain
dick / penis (vulgar)
Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han
Badong County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Bavaria
rumba (loanword)
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
Pakistan
palm of the hand / classifier: slap
Maybach, German car brand
Europe
Palestine
Zhenba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
Barcelona, Spain
Paraguay
Basra (city in Iraq)
Babylon
Abbas (name) / Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005
Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
Baghdad, capital of Iraq
Bayan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang
stammeringly
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
Maralbeshi nahiyisi (Maralbexi county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Balkan
Bahrain
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
a mute / mute; silent
minibus
Batang county (Tibetan: 'ba' thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
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)
wrinkled / crumpled / unironed
Zhongba county, Tibetan: 'Brong pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Bacchus, Greek god of wine
India and Pakistan
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Papua New Guinea
Barack, Barak, Ballack (name)
pathetic / pitiful
waiting anxiously / impatient
Zimbabwe
Gamba county, Tibetan: Gam pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Albania
table salt
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Shambhala, mythical place (Buddhism, Hinduism)
mud
pekingese (dog) / (fig.) sycophant / lackey
jitterbug (loanword)
Saybagh district (Uighur: Saybagh Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang

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