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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
basic word
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
gene bank
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
genetic mutation
foundation / base / family estate
Christian denomination
basic concept
Protestantism
fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être
bedrock
genetic engineering
basic law (constitutional document)
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
basic issue / fundamental question
base station
fundamental theorem
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
infrastructure
a Christian
gene technology
plinth; base; substrate
Christian
infrastructure
elementary education
gene therapy
underlying medical condition
al-Qaeda
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
base fertilizer
elementary particle (particle physics)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
Al-Qaeda
genetic modification
genetics
fund investor / (coll.) gay person
foundation (institution supported by an endowment)
basilar artery (central artery of the brain)
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
underlay / foundation / pedestal
(slang) bromance / gay love
(slang) gay guy
substrate
substrate
basics; essentials; fundamentals / (finance) fundamentals
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
basic unit / fundamental building block
base body / matrix / substrate
fundamental frequency
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
fundamental principle
basic course / core curriculum
basal plasma membrane
fundamental (wave)
Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students (Tw), abbr. for 國民中學學生基本學力測驗|国民中学学生基本学力测验
genetic modification; GM
(psychology) schema
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
basic rate (as in ISDN)
(political party's) voter base / (musician's) fan base / (a business's) customer base / the funds necessary for a venture / foundation on which sth's existence depends / bedrock (in the figurative sense)
Christian Democratic Union (German political party)
Quito, capital of Ecuador
(slang) very close same-sex friend / gay partner
Al-Qaeda / same as 基地組織|基地组织
foundation (of building) / bed (e.g. bedrock) / substrate
base electrode (in transistor)
(computing) infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Kigali, capital of Rwanda
Christian democratic party
genome
basic necessity / fundamental need
genetic code
kibbutz
Gideon (name, from Judges 6:11 onward) / also written 吉迪恩
kip (Laotian currency)
guild (loanword)
ground plane (in perspective drawing)
genome (Tw)
Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
foundation / footing / base / ruins (of a historical building)
cardinal numeral
genotype
fundamental frequency / base harmonic
Christian Science
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)

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