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bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
mouth (CL:張|张) / slap in the face (CL:個|个)
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
cabaret (loanword)
Zimbabwe (Tw)
jitterbug (loanword)
lymphatic vessel
Lake Balkhash in southeast Kazakhstan
Antigua and Barbuda (Tw)
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
Habahe county or Qaba nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
Subaru
Zanzibar
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
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
fenugreek
avid / eager for / longing for / to look forward to
Bilbao (city in Spain)
Paris, capital of France
to blink / to wink
to poke one's head in and pry (idiom); to spy / nosy
dry / parched / dull / insipid
samba (Tw) (loanword)
(physiology) (loanword) lymph
Baden (region in Germany)
Sabah, state of Malaysia in north Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
Bar-Ilan University, in Israel
Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
Barclay or Berkeley (name)
fuck! / motherfucker! / fucking
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Parkinson's disease
millibar (mbar or mb), unit of pressure (equal to hectopascal)
Alabama, US state
samba (dance) (loanword)
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市, Xinjiang
chin
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
(suffix) very / extremely
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras (Tw)
Bayanhot, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona) / Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
(name) Sebastian
baroque (loanword)
almond (loanword)
Brazil
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
Sparta
Pasteur
Sumbawa, Indonesian island east of Java
Lebanon
Cuba
Sherpa
Basel, Switzerland
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
the Bahamas
(loanword) rhumba
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
Pakistan
palm of the hand / classifier: slap
Maybach, German car brand
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
Palestine
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
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
Bayan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang
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
pekingese (dog) / (fig.) sycophant / lackey
Balkan
Bahrain
big Russian-style bread (loanword from Russian "хлеб")
Panama
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
a mute / mute; silent
minibus
to talk shit / to drivel / bullshit
stammeringly

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