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HSK
to announce; to make public; to publish
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *布* | 布* | *布
cloth / to declare / to announce / to spread / to make known
HSK 3
variant of 公布
HSK 3
to declare / to announce / to proclaim
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *布* | 布* | *布
variant of / to announce / to spread
HSK 3
variant of 宣布
HSK 3
to scatter / to distribute / to be distributed (over an area etc) / (statistical, geographic) distribution
HSK 4
to put in order / to arrange / to decorate / to fix up / to deploy
HSK 4
to release / to issue / to announce / to distribute
HSK 5
variant of 發布|发布
HSK 5
to be covered with / to be filled with
HSK 6
arrangement / composition / layout / opening (chess jargon)
HSK 7-9
to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout
HSK 7-9
waterfall
HSK 7-9
to disseminate
HSK 7-9
news conference / briefing
HSK 7-9
news conference / briefing
HSK 7-9
to issue / to proclaim / to enact (laws, decrees etc)
HSK 7-9
Burundi
Budapest, capital of Hungary
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
Jobs (name) / see also 史蒂夫·喬布斯|史蒂夫·乔布斯, Steve Jobs
distributed
blues (music) (loanword)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Istanbul, Turkey
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
wiring
Burkina Faso
printed cloth / calico
to lay mines
woven cloth / to weave cloth
ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)
gauze
plain cotton clothing / (literary) the common people
adhesive plaster / band-aid / rubber tape / rubberized fabric
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
canvas (artist's painting surface)
Buyei ethnic group
cleaning rag / also pr. [mo3 bu4]
canvas / sailcloth
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
(math.) normal distribution / Gaussian distribution
fabric; cloth; material (for making clothing, curtains etc)
Brest, westernmost town in France
mop
Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008
Bristol
to arrange; to lay out; (esp.) to set up (a trap)
pudding (loanword)
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
cloth (by the yard)
Brighton, town in England
to set up an exhibit
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
(stage) set
Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
cotton cloth
sackcloth
tarpaulin
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
Kampot, town in Cambodia, capital of Kampot Province
tablecloth / (computing) desktop background / wallpaper / CL: 條|条, 塊|块, 張|张
diaper
Abkhazia
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
posting on a bulletin board / notice / bulletin / to announce
tablecloth
cloth shoes / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
cappuccino (loanword)
ibuprofen
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
plain white cloth / calico
(theater) curtain
Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) / Columbus, capital of Ohio
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925-2022), British theater director
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96
cuckoo
Brian (name)
Budai (the Laughing Buddha) / Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
pouch / sack / bag
sermon / to sermonize / to preach / to evangelize
to preach (the Christian gospel)
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
Papua New Guinea
to lay out a defense
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
Dan Brown (American novelist)
Zimbabwe
to cover densely
unbleached and undyed cloth / gray cloth
rock-paper-scissors (hand game)

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