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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *布* | 布* | *布
cloth / to declare / to announce / to spread / to make known
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *佈* | 佈* | *佈
variant of / to announce / to spread
HSK 3
to put in order / to arrange / to decorate / to fix up / to deploy
HSK 4
to be covered with / to be filled with
HSK 6
arrangement / composition / layout / opening (chess jargon)
HSK 7-9
bulgur (loanword)
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Bunun, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
(bird species of China) Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)
creator god of the Zhuang minority 壯族|壮族
Burkina Faso
Boolean (math.) (Tw)
plum (loanword)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Braille (name) / Louis Braille (1809-1852), French educator who invented braille
Bhutto (name) / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq / Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
a cloth
Bristol Channel in southwest England
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
screen (movie theater etc)
Blair (name)
lit. cloth, silk, beans and grain (idiom) / fig. food and clothing; daily necessities
glove puppetry
Burundi
cloth (by the yard)
Bunyavirus / virus of the family Bunyaviridae
Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
pudding (loanword)
Brian (name)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937
fabric; cloth; material (for making clothing, curtains etc)
Bristol
Lake Bled, glacial lake amid the Julian Alps in Slovenia, adjacent to the town of Bled
Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
bulletin board
blues (music) (loanword)
Budapest, capital of Hungary
plain cotton clothing / (literary) the common people
to lay mines
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925–2022), British theater director
sermon / to sermonize / to preach / to evangelize
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
Brittany, area in the north-west of France
Burkina Faso (Tw)
Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Brzezinski (name) / Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
Taiwan equivalent of 布什
Braşov, Romania
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Brighton, town in England
Brindisi, port city on southeast heel of Italy
Buffalo, New York state
Bristol port city in southwest England
(name) Branson or Brandsen / Sir Richard Branson (1950–), British billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group
Bolshevik
Bradford, city in West Yorkshire, England
Brno, city in Czech Republic
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Browne (person name)
cuckoo
(physics) Brownian motion
posting on a bulletin board / notice / bulletin / to announce
Blackburn
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
Bujumbura, capital of Burundi (Tw)
Butuo, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州, Sichuan
Bryne (City in Rogaland, Norway)
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
Baudrillard (name)
woman's dress (loanword from Russian) / gown
Brutus (name)
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
cloth and silk / cotton and silk textiles
wiring
to lay out a defense
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Brutus (name) / Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar / Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic
Dana (Buddhist practice of giving)
Brazzaville, capital of Congo (Tw)
Blumberg or Bloomberg (name)
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt / poorly dressed
to preach (the Christian gospel)
variant of 部署
(stage) set
Brucella (infectious disease)
Brest, westernmost town in France
Buchanan (surname)
ragdoll (cat breed)
Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)
to set up an exhibit
rag doll
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
Buyei ethnic group
stuffed toy; rag doll
to progressively extend (service delivery, network etc) to a wider area / rollout
cloth shoes / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008

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