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bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
Paris, capital of France
the Bahamas
(Sichuan dialect) comfortable; suitable; excellent; really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb); to curry favor with
Basel, Switzerland
(Tw) (loanword) bassoon
Brazil
Panama Canal
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
(coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
Baqên, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市, Tibet
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
bus stop
Palestine
Barcelona, Spain
Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han
Panama
to manage with difficulty / only just getting by / in a difficult position
pasteurization
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
almond (loanword)
Burberry (brand)
Barclays Bank
Bath city in southwest England
Palestinian-Israeli (relations)
Balkan
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
Bahrain
baroque (loanword)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll.
Palestinian National Authority
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
(loanword) basa (Pangasius bocourti)
Balkan Peninsula
to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to
pug (breed of dog)
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona) / Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
pug (breed of dog)
bazaar (loanword)
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Papua New Guinea (abbr. for 巴布亞新幾內亞|巴布亚新几内亚)
Ba Maw
Ba Jin (1904–2005), novelist, author of the trilogy 家春秋
Batang county (Tibetan: 'ba' thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Bayannur, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
Baghdad, capital of Iraq
capoeira
croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科 / croton seed, a strong purgative
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河 Huang He river
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic
Bali (island in Indonesia)
Pakistan
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) / (coll.) Pakistani brethren / Pakistani comrades / abbr. for 巴基斯坦鐵哥們|巴基斯坦铁哥们
Barents Sea
Barclay or Berkeley (name)
bazaar (loanword) / Taiwan pr. [ba1 cha4]
to look forward to
Basque / the Basque Country
Bayanhot, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia
Barack, Barak, Ballack (name)
Brasilia, capital of Brazil
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
Bamako, capital of Mali
Barbados
Barabbas (in the Biblical passion story)
palm of the hand / classifier: slap
avid / eager for / longing for / to look forward to
rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
mountains and rivers of Sichuan (idiom)
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
Bairin Right banner or Baarin Baruun khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
University of Paris
Pazeh, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
(suffix) very / extremely
to climb hills and pass over mountains (idiom); to cross mountain after mountain / good at climbing mountains
Paraguay
Baruch (name) / Baruch, disciple of Jeremiah / book of Baruch in the Apocrypha
Mt Ba in eastern Sichuan
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942–), Director of International Atomic Energy Agency 1997–2009 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Pakistan administered Kashmir
bazooka (loanword)
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市, Xinjiang
Parmesan cheese
Bayanhot Town, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer (Tw)
bawu, a free reed wind instrument shaped like a flute and played transversally, associated particularly with minority cultures of Yunnan
Bartholomew
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently

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