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HSK
to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment
HSK 6
promise
HSK 7-9
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Nobel (Prize)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *諾* | 諾* | *諾
to consent / to promise / (literary) yes!
Reynolds number (ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid mechanics)
Noah
Noah's ark
old promise / long-standing commitment
Snow (name) / Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
Arnold (name) / refers to Arnold Schwarzenegger 阿諾·施瓦辛格|阿诺·施瓦辛格
Nobel Prize
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Illinois, US state
Normandy, France
promise / pledge
Illinois, US state
Noether (name) / Emmy Noether (1882-1935), German mathematician
(idiom) to be a yes-man
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
Juneau, capital of Alaska / Juno, Roman goddess of marriage
Edward Snowden (1983-), American surveillance program whistleblower
to agree (to do sth); to promise
Krasnoyarsk
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
Brno, city in Czech Republic
Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
Nokia (company name)
San Marino
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Illinois, US state
Jinuo ethnic group
Normans (people)
one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
consent
old promises / unfulfilled promises
Baruch or Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), rationalist philosopher
the EU Sakharov prize for human rights
Nottingham (city in England)
(loanword) domino
(name) Severino
Hanover
Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)
Cronus (Titan of Greek mythology)
cappuccino (loanword)
Pinot noir (grape type)
to promise / to consent (to do sth)
Nomex (brand)
Nobel Peace Prize
snooker (loanword)
norovirus (loanword)
Illinois, US state
Shimano (brand)
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
surname Adorno / Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno 狄奧多·阿多諾|狄奥多·阿多诺 (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
Romano (name)
Nobel Prize in Physics
dominoes
a promise that can be realized
Pinot gris (grape type) / Pinot grigio
Nottinghamshire (English county)
Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
cappuccino (loanword)
Chicano; Chicana; Mexican American
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Minoan (civilization on Crete)
Northrop Grumman (aerospace arm of Boeing)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
Uno (card game)
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
Chernobyl
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
cappuccino coffee
Yanoda, a rainforest in southern Hainan
quinolone (a hydroxylated quinoline, inhibiting the replication of bacterial DNA)
Oceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology
Quirinius, governor of Syria (c. 51 BC - AD 21)
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher
Chuck Norris (1940-), American martial artist and actor
Grenoble (French town)
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
General Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006), Chilean dictator
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)
Romano (name)
San Marino (Tw)
(Andrei) Sakharov
Neumann (surname) / John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania (Tw)
Novgorod, city in Russia

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