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Bhutan in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia
Bhutan at Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026: broadcaster BBS, national final Rhythm of Bhutan on 11 August 2026, won by Nyendra with "Lhayi Semo", the contest's first confirmed entry; smallest participating country (about 770,000 people), Grand Final 14 November 2026 in Bangkok.
Bhutan national football team
Bhutan national football team, the Dragon Boys, men's team of the Bhutan Football Federation, AFC and SAFF member, home Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu. Won The Other Final 4-0 over Montserrat in 2002; never qualified for a major tournament; ranked 192nd in 2026.
Bhutan olympic committee
The Bhutan Olympic Committee is the national Olympic committee of Bhutan, founded in 1983. It has fielded archers at every Summer Olympics since its debut in 1984 at Los Angeles.
Bhutanese ngultrum
The Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.) is the currency of Bhutan, divided into 100 chhetrum and pegged at parity with the Indian rupee since its introduction in 1974.
Bhutanese textiles
Bhutanese textiles are the handwoven fabrics of Bhutan, above all the gho and kira national dress, forming one of the most developed weaving traditions in the Himalayas.
Bhutattalvar
Bhutattalvar (பூதத்தாழ்வார்) was a Tamil Vaishnava poet-saint, the second of the twelve Alvars, who composed the Irandam Thiruvandhadhi, a hundred-verse hymn to Vishnu in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
Bhutto family
Bhutto family, Sindhi Pakistani political dynasty leading the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP); Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (executed 1979), Benazir Bhutto (assassinated 2007), Asif Ali Zardari, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari; distinct from the rival Sharif family of PML-N.
Bhuvan Bam (भुवन बाम)
Bhuvan Bam (भुवन बाम; born Bhuvan Avnindra Shankar Bam in 1994) is an Indian YouTube creator and musician behind BB Ki Vines, the first individual Indian creator to pass 10 million subscribers.
Bhuvan Shome (भुवन सोम)
Bhuvan Shome (भुवन सोम) is Mrinal Sen's 1969 Hindi black-and-white satire, his first Hindi film, starring Utpal Dutt and Suhasini Mulay. FFC-funded for Rs 2 lakh, with Amitabh Bachchan's first paid voiceover, it won three National Film Awards and launched Indian Parallel Cinema.
Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri (film soundtrack)
Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri (புவனா ஒரு கேள்விக்குறி) is the soundtrack of the 1977 Tamil film starring Sivakumar and Rajinikanth, with three songs and title music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
Bhuvanam Gaganam (ಭುವನಮ್ ಗಗನಮ್)
Bhuvanam Gaganam (ಭುವನಂ ಗಗನಂ) is a 2025 Kannada romantic family drama directed by Gireesh Mulimani, starring Pramod and Pruthvi Ambaar as strangers on a road trip to Kanyakumari; released 14 February 2025, streaming on Zee5 from 31 July 2026.
Bhuvanesvara vati
Bhuvanesvara vati (Bhuvaneśvara vaṭī), an Ayurvedic Formulary of India tablet for atisara (diarrhea), made of triphala fruits, ajwain, bael, rock salt, and soot; a separate 11-ingredient herbo-mineral recipe shares the name.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (भुवनेश्वर कुमार सिंह)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (भुवनेश्वर कुमार सिंह), born 1990 in Meerut, is an Indian right-arm swing bowler; T20I/ODI debutant 2012 vs Pakistan, 6/82 at Lord's 2014, two-time IPL Purple Cap winner, SRH 2014–2024 then RCB, recalled to India's T20I squad in October 2026.
Bi (jade)
Bi (璧) is a flat, circular Chinese jade disk with a small central hole, one of the earliest Chinese jade forms, buried with high-status individuals and later symbolizing Heaven.
Bi Chanyu
Bi Chanyu, also known as the second Huhanye Chanyu, founded the Southern Xiongnu in 48 AD, submitting to the Eastern Han dynasty, and reigned until his death in 56 AD.
Bi Gan
Bi Gan (比干) was a Shang prince and kinsman of the last Shang king, killed for remonstrating with him, and later honored as a god of wealth.
Bi Gan's Execution
Bi Gan's Execution (比干剖心) was the killing of the Shang prince Bi Gan, whose heart King Zhou cut out after Bi Gan remonstrated with him.
Bi Kidude
Bi Kidude, born Fatuma binti Baraka around 1910, was a Zanzibari taarab singer and leader of unyago initiation rites, widely called the leading female voice of Zanzibari music.
Bi Sheng
Bi Sheng (毕升) was a Northern Song dynasty commoner who invented movable-type printing using fired clay types during the Qingli era (1041–1048) of Emperor Renzong.
Bi Shumin
Bi Shumin (毕淑敏, born 1952) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and former army physician whose novels include Red Prescription, Blood Ruby, and The Woman Psychologist.
Bỉ vỏ
Bỉ vỏ is a Vietnamese realist novel by Nguyên Hồng, his first, written in 1935–1936 and first published in 1938, following the village girl Tám Bính into poverty in Hải Phòng.
Bi Yuan
Bi Yuan (毕沅, 1730–1797) was a Qing dynasty official, scholar, and patron of learning who served as governor of Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong and led the compilation of the Xu Zizhi Tongjian.
Bi-Chang Chen
Bi-Chang Chen is a Taiwanese optical microscopist who co-developed lattice light-sheet microscopy in Eric Betzig's group and is now Deputy Director at Academia Sinica's Research Center for Applied Sciences.
Bi-encoder
A bi-encoder, also called a dual-encoder or two-tower model, is a neural retrieval architecture that encodes queries and documents independently into a shared embedding space for fast similarity search.
Bi-Manu-Track
Bi-Manu-Track is a robotic arm trainer for stroke rehabilitation, designed by Stefan Hesse and made by Reha-Stim of Berlin, that trains the forearm and wrist through repetitive bilateral movement.
Bi-pin base
A bi-pin base is a lamp cap connecting a bulb to its socket with two straight metal pins instead of a screw thread; G codes give pin spacing in millimeters.
BI-RADS
BI-RADS (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System) is a standardized reporting system from the American College of Radiology that assigns breast imaging findings to categories 0 through 6.
Bi‐Sen Ding
Bi-Sen Ding (丁楅森) is a Chinese vascular biologist known for angiocrine factors, blood-vessel signals that direct lung and liver regeneration or fibrosis, and a researcher at Sichuan University since 2016.
Bi2Pd
Bi2Pd (β-Bi2Pd) is an intermetallic superconductor of bismuth and palladium, superconducting below 5.4 K and studied as a candidate topological superconductor hosting possible Majorana zero modes.
Bi2Se3 topological insulator
Bi2Se3 (bismuth selenide) is a three-dimensional topological insulator with a narrow bulk gap of about 0.3 eV and spin-orbit-inverted bands, whose surfaces conduct through a single Dirac cone while selenium vacancies make most crystals n-type.