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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *比* | 比* | *比
to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
HSK 1
to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to compare
HSK 3
to be just like; can be compared to
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *比* | 比* | *比
Belgium / Belgian / abbr. for 比利時|比利时
signal-to-noise ratio
waist-to-hip ratio
to liken oneself to (sb or sth)
(idiom) things are very different now; times have changed
percentage
HSK 7-9
proportion; percentage
incomparable; matchless
HSK 7-9
kopeck (unit of money, one hundredth of ruble) (loanword)
can be compared / to be very similar
to vary inversely / inversely proportional to
incomparable
cost-performance ratio
HSK 7-9
to make invidious comparisons / to compete with / to emulate
(loanword) daddy
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
comparable
(slang) silly but amusing person
(statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year; year on year; year over year
(statistics) period on period (i.e. "month on month" or "quarter on quarter" etc, depending on the context)
unlike
screen-to-body ratio (of a smartphone etc)
to evaluate (by comparison)
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
inversely proportional / inverse ratio
extremely ugly / incomparably hideous
compound ratio
to be comparable to
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
having matchless strength
transmission ratio / gear ratio
Nairobi, capital of Kenya (Tw)
Rugby (game) / Rugby school in England
direct ratio / directly proportional
(loanword) rupee (Indian currency)
to mix ingredients in the appropriate proportions / mixing ratio; proportion of the different ingredients in a blend
Mississippi
(loanword) wasabi
Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
compression ratio
parallelism (rhetoric) / to arrange things alongside each other
to make a comparison / to engage in a contest
(wing) aspect ratio (aerodynamics)
(idiom) very big; huge
(loanword) rabbi
Barbie
to flog / to cane (as punishment)
stripping-to-ore ratio / stripping ratio
Philip / Philippi
Gatsby
(sports) (loanword) derby (contest between local rivals)
sex ratio
Dolby (audio technology)
(electronics) common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR)
Caribbean
row upon row
São Tomé and Príncipe
intimate
Sotheby's auction house
analogy / (Tw) (electronics) analog
wasabi (loanword) (Tw)
lined up close (like teeth of a comb)
comparatively (colloquial) / fairly / quite / rather / relatively
(Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (Tw)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *比* | 比* | *比
euphemistic variant of
compound ratio (i.e. the product of two or more ratios)
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
geometric (of mathematical sequences or progressions)
burpee (loanword)
percentage by volume


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