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wave
HSK 6
calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns
cycle (physics)
to rush about / to be constantly on the move
HSK 7-9
microwave oven / CL: 臺|台
HSK 6
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
wave form
polka dot (abbr. for 波爾卡圓點|波尔卡圆点)
carrier wave
Eridanus (constellation)
Potomac River
Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
ripple / microwave
twists and turns
HSK 7-9
Persian Gulf
billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
HSK 7-9
Poznan (city in Poland)
to spread to / to involve / to affect
HSK 7-9
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
Po River, longest river in Italy
Kaposvár in southwest Hungary, capital of Somogy County 紹莫吉州|绍莫吉州
wavelength
disturbance / crisis / disputes / restlessness / CL: 場|场
HSK 7-9
Sharapova (Russian female tennis star)
electric wave / alternating current
ultra short wave (radio) / UHF
great waves / billows
HSK 7-9
Potsdam Declaration
Persia
shock wave / blast wave
to detect (e.g. radio waves)
wave / (water) ripple
fluctuation
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  *波* | 波* | *波
(bound form) Poland (abbr. for 波蘭|波兰) / surname Bo
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  *波* | 波* | *波
wave / ripple / storm / surge
linear wave
ultrasound (scan)
mist covered water
Persian (cat)
pop art (loanword)
ripple / corrugation
Leonardo Fibonacci (c. 1170-1250), Italian mathematician
Zhou Libo (1908-1979), left-wing journalist, translator and novelist / Zhou Libo (1967-), Chinese stand-up comedian
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), flowering herbaceous plant
wave band
tilde ( ~ )
Rinpoche (Tibetan honorific)
wavelet (math.)
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
Polynesia
light wave
seismic wave
diplomatic crisis
Port wine
wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics
traveling wave tube (electronics)
burqa (loanword)
boysenberry (hybrid of raspberry and blackberry)
jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus
autumn ripples / (fig.) luminous eyes of a woman / amorous glance
Tsukuba, university city in Ibaraki prefecture 茨城縣|茨城县, northeast of Tokyo, Japan
sound wave
polarized wave
to cast flirtatious glances at sb (idiom)
Polish (language)
shock wave
financial crisis / banking crisis
breakwater / seawall / fig. defensive buffer zone
gravitational wave
burpee (loanword)
ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
wave function (in quantum mechanics)
amplitude
density wave
brethren on the other side of the border (used in the context of China-Myanmar friendship) (loanword from Burmese "paukphaw", meaning "close kin")
brain wave / EEG
radiation (wave) / radiated wave
shampoo (loanword) / see 洗髮皂|洗发皂
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
Boaz (name)
Ebola (virus)
wavelength division multiplexing / WDM
fundamental (wave)
Ningbo, sub-provincial city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省
a plane wave
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
gradient echo
Potter or Porter (surname)
(loanword) baud (computing) / porter (beer)
(astronomy) pulsar
bubble milk tea (Tw) / Boba milk tea / tapioca milk tea / see also 珍珠奶茶
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
to filter electric signals
wave crest

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