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HSK
to declare / to announce / to proclaim
HSK 3
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
to scatter / to distribute / to be distributed (over an area etc) / (statistical, geographic) distribution
HSK 4
to arrange; to set up; to lay out / to assign (tasks, homework etc)
HSK 4
Bouyei ethnic group
news conference / briefing
HSK 7-9
news conference / briefing
HSK 7-9
to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout
HSK 7-9
Gongbo'gyamda, a county in Nyingchi City 林芝市, Tibet
arrangement / composition / layout / opening (chess jargon)
HSK 7-9
denim
to arrange / to lay out
cloth (by the yard)
integrated wiring
Maputo, capital of Mozambique (Tw)
to arrange; to lay out; (esp.) to set up (a trap)
to release / to issue / to announce / to distribute
HSK 5
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
cleaning rag / also pr. [mo3 bu4]
sermon / to sermonize / to preach / to evangelize
to preach (the Christian gospel)
variant of 宣布
HSK 3
distributed environment (computing)
pudding (loanword)
variant of 公布
HSK 3
Budapest, capital of Hungary
Steve Jobs (1955–2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
to be covered with / to be filled with
HSK 6
to arrange / to order about / to manipulate
canvas shoes
linen
rain tarp
Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord
cotton cloth
Forbes (US publisher) / Forbes magazine
Leibniz (name) / Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus
waterfall
HSK 7-9
news conference
posting on a bulletin board / notice / bulletin / to announce
ibuprofen
Wimbledon (district of southwest London) / Wimbledon Championships (tennis)
Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) / Columbus, capital of Ohio
ragdoll (cat breed)
a cloth
Boolean algebra
tarpaulin
Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
distributed control
wiring
to lay mines
to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate / to go beyond old ideas / advancing all the time
tablecloth / (Tw) (computing) background; wallpaper (of a desktop, phone etc)
blues (music) (loanword)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *布* | 布* | *布
variant of / to announce / to spread
HSK 3
plain white cloth / calico
Istanbul, Turkey
to deploy surveillance / to put under surveillance
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
to disseminate
HSK 7-9
(stage) set
diaper
rag doll
Bolshevik
gauze
Bristol Channel in southwest England
distributed
rock-paper-scissors (game)
mop
to issue / to proclaim / to enact (laws, decrees etc)
HSK 7-9
bulletin board
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
cloth shoes / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
Schwab (name)
bean bag round
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
to prepare to meet the enemy head-on
to spread; to circulate; to disseminate
flannel
woven cloth / to weave cloth
Blang ethnic group
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt / poorly dressed
Srebrenica, town in Bosnia-Herzegovina
cappuccino (loanword)
unbleached and undyed cloth / gray cloth
disposable diaper
Djibouti
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
gauze mask
Ebro River (in northeast Spain)
cloth and silk / cotton and silk textiles

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