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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
foundation (institution supported by an endowment)
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
(Internet slang) it's nothing, there's no need to compliment
genetic modification
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Kiribati
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
Jinuo ethnic group
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
al-Qaeda
Christian
plinth; base; substrate
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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)
infrastructure
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
Kiel (German city)
genetic mutation
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
fundamental frequency
bedrock
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
Quito, capital of Ecuador
elementary education
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
kip (Laotian currency)
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
basic course / core curriculum
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
elementary particle (particle physics)
basic word
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
(dental implant) abutment
(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)
base fertilizer
guild (loanword)
base solvent (of chemical compound) / stroma (framing biological tissue)
(slang) gay guy
base station
foundation / footing / base / ruins (of a historical building)
fundamental tone
substrate
substrate
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
ground plane (in perspective drawing)
gene technology
mapping of genome
(slang) the norm; typical behavior; nothing out of the ordinary; just what you'd expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作)
fundamental principle
genome
cardinal numeral
radical (chemistry)
base electrode (in transistor)
(slang) very close same-sex friend / gay partner
a Christian
(genetics) locus
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska (Tw)
fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être
Kievan Rus', East Slavic state that reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century
(Tw) genetically modified; GM (abbr. for 基因改造)
chikungunya fever
base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)
basic concept
foundation piles
gene bank
foundation (of building) / bed (e.g. bedrock) / substrate
basic unit / fundamental building block
fundamental (wave)
infrastructure
base body / matrix / substrate
Kigali, capital of Rwanda
genotype
genetics
genetic engineering
genetic modification; GM
gene therapy
genetic code
genome (Tw)
Al-Qaeda / same as 基地組織|基地组织
Al-Qaeda
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
kibbutz
basilar artery (central artery of the brain)
basal cell carcinoma
(slang) bromance / gay love

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