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HSK
treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character
HSK 4
the cylindrical adductor muscle of bivalve shellfish such as scallops
Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
Bell Labs
Nobel Prize in Physics
Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
shell (of a mollusk)
HSK 7-9
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga
scallop (genus Pecten)
decibel
Chernobyl
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
Nobel Peace Prize
rice cracker
Nobel (Prize)
Campbell (name)
shellfish / mollusks
copy / to copy (loanword)
Nobel Prize
Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia
Bell (person name)
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
Lake Baikal, Russia
Beethoven's Ninth
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
bass guitar
(medicine) babesiosis
Baker or Becker (name)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) (abbr. for 貝克勒爾|贝克勒尔)
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011
Nobel Prize in Literature
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia)
Pompeii, ancient Roman town near Naples, Italy
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
(music) (loanword) bass
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
surname Fröbel or Froebel / Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782–1852), German pedagogue
(Tw) laminating film / laminating pouch
beta (Greek letter Β, β)
Benetton, clothes company
Benin (Tw)
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆)
nickname for Victoria Beckham
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
(of a child) apple of one's eye
Malbec (grape type)
(loanword) tempeh
Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
(stationery) to laminate (Tw)
land snail
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín), village near Cork / Ballycotton, music band
Bernoulli (Swiss mathematical family, including Johann (1667-1748) and Daniel (1700-1782))
PayPal (Internet payment and money transfer company)
Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt
bass (loanword) / bass guitar
Buir Lake of Inner Mongolia
Tønsberg (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Obed (name)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
Benin
(metallurgy) bainite; bainitic
(loanword) beret
Kongsberg (city in Norway)
(math.) non-abelian
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
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surname Bei
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cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)
Pei Ieoh Ming or I.M. Pei (1917-2019), Chinese-American architect
shell carving
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
cowrie
Bellamy
Belgrade, capital of Serbia
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian
electric bass (guitar)
Bennett (surname)
Hulunbuir, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
B&R Industrial Automation International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
Lübeck, Germany
(medicine) babesiosis
shell mound
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
Beatrix (name)
Belmopan, capital of Belize

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