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HSK
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
universal / general / widespread / common
HSK 3
to spread extensively / to generalize / widespread / popular / universal / ubiquitous / pervasive
HSK 3
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃
Puding county in Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
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general / popular / everywhere / universal
(bird species of China) common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Prussia (historical German state)
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
(Buddhism, Daoism) to deliver all sentient beings from suffering / (Tw) a ritual of making offerings, esp. to wandering spirits rather than gods or ancestors (abbr. for 中元普渡)
census / general survey / general investigation / reconnaissance survey
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市, Zhejiang
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist
Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Phuket (city in Thailand)
(of sunlight) to bathe all things; to shine gloriously
Plymouth
Provence (south of France)
Puan county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州, Guizhou
Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet
to disseminate knowledge of the law
Bridgestone (tire company)
everybody celebrating together / universal celebration / universal rejoicing
Pilates (physical fitness system)
Preston, city in England
universal suffrage
Price (name)
(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)
Praia, capital of Cape Verde
precipitation over a large area / widespread rain
Providence, capital of Rhode Island
Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Prodi (surname)
proletariat (loanword) / abbr. for 普羅列塔利亞|普罗列塔利亚
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
inclusive; accessible and affordable for everyone
psi (Greek letter Ψψ)
(Buddhism) to deliver all living creatures from suffering (idiom)
common law
Pu'er, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
ubiquity / universality
common stock
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Pulitzer Prize
Puning, county-level city in Jieyang 揭陽|揭阳, Guangdong
Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016
common noun (grammar)
NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC) / usually abbr. to 高考
propranolol (beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure)
(neologism c. 2020) an ordinary guy who imagines he is God's gift to womankind
Puge County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州, Sichuan
local train / ordinary vehicle
a model of Volkswagen Santana based on the Passat B2 / Poussin (name)
general middle school
Puding county in Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
(physics) Planck's constant h, approximately 6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ joule.seconds
universal mercy and succor (idiom); the Buddha's infinite power and mercy
Pumi ethnic group
examination for lower levels of Taiwan government service (short for 普通考試|普通考试)
Puebla, a city southeast of Mexico City / term used to refer to plants whose specific epithet is pueblensis, such as Tillandsia pueblensis (an air plant) and Echeveria pueblensis (a succulent)
throughout the world
Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基
Provençal (language)
Burang county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Spu hreng rdzong
(medicine) regular food
universal; worldwide
Playfair (surname)
universal
Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan
general education
ordinary people / the masses
common people / average people / hoi polloi
Plesetsk, settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Tillandsia pueblensis, a species of air plants
Purdue University
(bird species of China) oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)
Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
(bird species of China) great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Pratchett (name)
Putuo district, central Shanghai / Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市, Zhejiang
Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara)
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Pashtu (one of the languages of Afghanistan)
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Pretoria, capital of South Africa (Tw)
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
Puccini
Puan county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州, Guizhou
Puning, county-level city in Jieyang 揭陽|揭阳, Guangdong
Pula (city in Croatia)

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