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HSK
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
Brazil
lymphatic vessel
Gamba county, Tibetan: Gam pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
Pakistan
Paris, capital of France
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
(Tw) Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
Barbados
(slang) BBQ
Zimbabwe
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
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) (Tw)
Zanzibar
Cuba
Sparta
amoeba / ameba
Habahe county or Qaba nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Europe / abbr. to 歐洲|欧洲
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona) / Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
Kiribati
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
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
Choibalsan, city in Mongolia, capital of the eastern aimag (province) of Dornod / Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952), Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic (mid-1930s-1952)
Rabat, capital of Morocco
pug (breed of dog)
dick / penis (vulgar)
minibus
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
Europe
(suffix) very / extremely
Galapagos Islands
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer (Tw)
Bahrain
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
Lebanon
croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科 / croton seed, a strong purgative
Panama
Manitoba, province of Canada
to stutter
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
Bavaria
Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway
chin
(physiology) (loanword) lymph
Albany, New York
lymphocyte
ancient Babylon
Basque / the Basque Country
Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
the Bahamas
table salt
tight fitting / hard up (i.e. lacking money)
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
(loanword) aspartame
Paraguay
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
Albania
Antigua and Barbuda
Sabah, state of Malaysia in north Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
Bath city in southwest England
(loanword) rhumba
Balkan Peninsula
Saybagh district (Uighur: Saybagh Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang
a mute / mute; silent
the Pali language or, more broadly, the scriptural and literary tradition of Theravada Buddhism
Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
stammeringly
Basel, Switzerland
New Barag left banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
Pekingese (dog breed)
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
Alabama, US state
pathetic / pitiful
lymph node; lymph gland
palm of the hand / classifier: slap
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
Barcelona, Spain
Old Barag Banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
tobacco (loanword) (old)
Babylon
Aba, southeast Nigerian city / Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather
wrinkled / crumpled / unironed
(coll.) docile / well-behaved / biddable
Barclay or Berkeley (name)
lymphoma
Badong County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
pent-up unspoken grievances / suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of

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