基 in English
- (bound form) base / foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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中国与巴基斯坦、印度、阿富汗、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、北朝鲜、老挝、越南、尼泊尔、不丹、缅甸、蒙古和俄罗斯接壤。
China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.
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中国重要的宗教是道教、佛教、伊斯兰教和基督教。
The major religions in China are Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.
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乌克兰的首都是基辅。
The capital of the Ukraine is Kiev.
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伯拉罕·林肯，美国第16任总统，生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
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国际货币基金组织不考虑再借款给该国。
The IMF ruled out any new loans to that country.
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基辅是乌克兰的首都。
Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine.
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它是基本人权。
It's a basic human right.
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我不会想到有一天我会在维基百科查找“伟哥”。
I wouldn't have thought I would someday look up "Viagra" in Wikipedia.