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HSK
treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character
HSK 4
decibel
bassist; bass player
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
nickname for Victoria Beckham
Beethoven's Ninth
beta (Greek letter Β, β)
Nobel Prize
shell (of a mollusk)
HSK 7-9
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt
(loanword) bass (esp. bass guitar)
drum and bass (music genre)
precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
shell mound
Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Hulunbuir, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia
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  *貝* | 貝* | *貝
surname Bei
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  *貝* | 貝* | *貝
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)
bass guitar
rice cracker
Bell (person name)
land snail
the cylindrical adductor muscle of bivalve shellfish such as scallops
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
mussel
Nobel Peace Prize
Benin (Tw)
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia)
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
(loanword) beret
Lake Baikal, Russia
shellfish / mollusks
Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media
Nobel Prize in Literature
Bell Labs
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
portobello mushroom
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
(metallurgy) bainite; bainitic
Belgrade, capital of Serbia
pearly white teeth / cowry
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
Shin Bet (Israel national security service)
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
Buir Lake of Inner Mongolia
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011
Chernobyl
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín), village near Cork / Ballycotton, music band
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician
(loanword) tempeh
Nobel Prize in Physics
Bernoulli (Swiss mathematical family, including Johann (1667-1748) and Daniel (1700-1782))
scallop (genus Pecten)
pearl oyster (genus Pinctada)
Lübeck, Germany
laminating machine / laminator
Pei Ieoh Ming or I.M. Pei (1917-2019), Chinese-American architect
Campbell (name)
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
Baker or Becker (name)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) (abbr. for 貝克勒爾|贝克勒尔)
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian
cowrie
(stationery) to laminate (Tw)
PayPal (Internet payment and money transfer company)
Belmopan, capital of Belize (Tw)
Benetton, clothes company
Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
Nobel (Prize)
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
Bennett (surname)
electric bass (guitar)
shell carving
Obed (name)
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
Belmopan, capital of Belize
(loanword) a cappella
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
(medicine) babesiosis
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
(music) (loanword) bass
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
Baker or Becker (name)
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
(of a child) apple of one's eye

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