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麥克斯
ㄇㄞˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄙ
“Max; common transliteration of the English name, also used for Maxwell”
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麥
ㄇㄞˋ
Wheat; barley; oats; surname Mai; also used as an abbreviation for microphone.
克
ㄎㄜˋ
To overcome; to subdue; to restrain; to be able to; to digest; to deduct; a unit of land area; used in transliterations.
斯
ㄙ
This; here; thus; such; emphatic particle; phonetic character used in transliterations; archaic pronoun for 'this' or 'here'; archaic adverb for 'all'; archaic conjunction for 'then'.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 俄羅斯ㄜˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄙRussia; a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
- 克服ㄎㄜˋ ㄈㄨˊto overcome (difficulties, obstacles); to conquer; to put up with; to endure
- 巧克力ㄑㄧㄠˇ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄧˋchocolate; a sweet food made from ground cacao beans, sugar, and flavorings.
- 傑克ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄎㄜˋJack (playing card); the card ranked between ten and queen in a deck; also a common male given name.
- 奧斯卡ㄠˋ ㄙ ㄎㄚˇOscar (Academy Award); the annual American film award; (name) Oscar
- 公克ㄍㄨㄥ ㄎㄜˋgram; a unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram; commonly used in Taiwan.
- 貝克ㄅㄟˋ ㄎㄜˋBaker or Becker (surname); becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)
- 詹姆斯ㄓㄢ ㄇㄨˇ ㄙJames (given name or surname); LeBron James (1984–), American NBA basketball player.
- 瓦斯ㄨㄚˇ ㄙgas (loanword); flammable gas such as coal gas or natural gas; in military contexts, poison gas.
- 伊拉克ㄧ ㄌㄚ ㄎㄜˋIraq; a country in West Asia.
- 烏克蘭ㄨ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄢˊUkraine; a country in Eastern Europe on the Dnieper River, bordering the Black Sea and Sea of Azov; capital Kyiv.
- 麥可ㄇㄞˋ ㄎㄜˇMichael (given name, especially in Taiwan).