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HSK
bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
HSK 4
mouth (CL:張|张) / slap in the face
HSK 4
(coll.) large bus / coach / (abbr. for 大型巴士)
HSK 4
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
(Tw) Sherpa
Paris, capital of France
(dialect) octopus
Bayi, a district of Nyingchi City 林芝市, Tibet
the Bahamas
Book of Habakkuk
(Sichuan dialect) comfortable; suitable; excellent; really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb); to curry favor with
Basel, Switzerland
Bazhou, a district of Bazhong City 巴中市, Sichuan
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
Danba, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan
(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
(Tw) (loanword) bassoon
Brazil
China-Pakistan (relations) / China-Bahamas
minibus
Starbucks, US coffee shop chain
Panama Canal
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
(coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia
(slang) (jocular) "city bumpkin", city person lacking basic rural or natural-world knowledge (play on 鄉巴佬|乡巴佬)
harsh / savage / fierce
to flatter someone in a hundred different ways / assiduous fawning (idiom)
chin
Baqên, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市, Tibet
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
(coll.) all show and no substance
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
America and Pakistan / America and Brazil / America and Panama
bus stop
Israeli-Palestinian
Cuba
Palestine
former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan
dopamine
Barcelona, Spain
Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han
Alabama, US state
to slap
Panama
Europe / abbr. to 歐洲|欧洲
minibus
to manage with difficulty / only just getting by / in a difficult position
pasteurization
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
almond (loanword)
Burberry (brand)
Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) (abbr. for 九龍巴士|九龙巴士)
minibus / microbus
Barclays Bank
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Bath city in southwest England
Palestinian-Israeli (relations)
lymphatic system
Alabama, US state
very fierce
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出)
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
Balkan
to stutter
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
Bahrain
baroque (loanword)
Pekingese (dog breed)
India and Pakistan
pathetic / pitiful
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
tight fitting / hard up (i.e. lacking money)
to bundle up
pekingese (dog) / (fig.) sycophant / lackey
Europe / Europa
(physiology) (loanword) lymph
table salt
Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll.
Palestinian National Authority
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
(loanword) basa (Pangasius bocourti)
Balkan Peninsula
(female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend
older female / woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)
(Tw) Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
a mute / mute; silent
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
Shut up!
pug (breed of dog)
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona) / Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
to blink / to wink
lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one's evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain

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