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HSK
occasionally / once in a while / sometimes
HSK 5
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
the Seychelles
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Zanzibar
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爾* | 爾* | *爾
thus / so / like that / you / thou
(Tw) the Seychelles
Nepal
Tyre (city in Lebanon)
Nashville, capital of Tennessee
angel (loanword)
Blair (name)
Haier (PRC household appliance brand) / Hale (name)
Eidsvoll (city in Norway)
Nobel (Prize)
Agadir, city in southwest Morocco
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), German philosopher
Darfur, region of western Sudan
Gwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
Karl (name)
Dell
Raphael
Bell (person name)
Moore or Moor (name) / see also 摩爾人|摩尔人
mole (chemistry)
Theodor of Fyodor (name)
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
Kiel (German city)
Saarland
Daniel (name)
Hall (name)
Bill (name)
Pascal (name)
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
Kohl (name) / Helmut Kohl (1930-2017), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Powell (name)
Claire (name)
Dole (name) / Bob Dole (1923-2021), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996
(name) Pierre
Hull (name) / Kingston upon Hull
Ur (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq)
Chur (city in Switzerland)
Ecuador
Basel, Switzerland
Qatar
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Pierre, capital of South Dakota
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Campbell (name)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter
Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada
Samuel (name)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940–1945 and 1951–1955 / surname Churchill
Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899
Intel
old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent
Gaelic / Geier or Gayer (name)
Lille (city in France)
(loanword) emir; amir
Kashmir
Baker or Becker (name)
not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary
real (Brazilian currency) (loanword)
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Lahore (city in Pakistan)
Dakar, capital of Senegal
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
Emanuel; Immanuel (name)
Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005
Bristol port city in southwest England
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
Vladimir
Igor
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
Robespierre (name) / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794
Doyle (name)
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India
Nasr or Nasser (Arab name) / Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian President
Sol (goddess)
Cyril (name) / Saint Cyril, 9th century Christian missionary / Cyrillic
Al-Mansur / Abu Jafar al Mansur (712-775), second Abassid caliph
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
(Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
Andorra
Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang
Mosul (city in Iraq)
Fidel (name)
Cornell (University)
(name) Fisher or Fischer
Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong

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