Most Common Chinese Characters (page 11)

(adj./adv./n.) (color) dark; deep; difficult; thorough; intimate; late (in the day, night or season); very, deeply; depth

(char.) business, commerce; merchant, businessman; to consult, to discuss | (char.) Shang Dynasty; (of music) Shang, note of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale | (n./v.) (Math.) quotient; to use a number as a quotient

(v.) count, calculate | (v.) to count in, to include | (char.) plan, project, programme | (v.) be considered as, be regarded as; let it pass; carry weight, count | (adv.) finally, at last, in the end | (v.) guess, reckon, suppose

(n.) quality; character, nature | (char.) matter, substance; simple, plain; to question; (lit.) to pawn; (lit.) pledge, hostage

(n./v.) group; (also: artillery and armor regiment; sth shaped like a ball; abbr.of Communist Youth League of China); to roll into a ball | (char./m.) round; mass; assemble; stuffed dumpling made of glutinous rice flour; measure word for sth in the shape of ball

(char.) gather | (char./m.) collection, anthology; part, volume, episode | (n.) market, country fair

(num.) hundred; (used to imply) many, a lot

(v./n.) need; needs

(n.) price; value; (Chemistry) valence

(n.) flower; decorative plant; anything resembling a flower | (v.) spend, cost | (n./adj.) fireworks; design; blurred | (adj.) colored | (char.) fancy, tricky; beautiful young woman; (lit.) prostitute, courtesan

(n./v.) political party; clique, gang; (lit.) to be partial to

(n./adj.) China, Chinese; time, prime of youth; (meteorology) corona; splendid, magnificent; prosperous; extravagant | (char.) name of a mountain; Chinese family name

(n.) city; town | (n.) (city) wall; commercial centre

(n.) stone, rock; stone inscription; medicinal minerals; stone needle (for acupuncture) | (radical.) stone

(n.) rank, scale, level; step; grade, class (the division of school) | (m.) measure word for stair, step and rank

(adj./v.) whole, full; (of number, time) exact; neat, in good order; to put in order; to repair; to make; (oral) make ... suffer

(n.) official residence; government office; (honorific) your residence

(prep./v.) away from; leave, depart; be apart from; be without, be independent of

(char.) situation; to compare | (conj.) moreover, besides; much less, let alone

(n./adj.) Asia; inferior, second

(v.) request; please; invite, ask, engage

(char.) skill, trick

(char.) border, boundary; inside; relation between or among; moment; (lit.) be on the occasion of; one's circumstances

(v./adv.) arrange, make an appointment; invite, ask sb. out; about | (char.) to restrain; agreement; appointment; brief; frugal; (Math.) reduce fractions

(char.) to show, to indicate, to notify | (radical.) show

(char.) complex; to duplicate; to retaliate; to turn over; to restore; to reply; again, once more

(v./n.) be ill, be sick; sickness, fault | (char.) fault, defect; to harm, to blame

(char.) to rest; to cease; to multiply; breath; interest; news; (lit.) young offspring

(v./adv.) study carefully; investigate; (lit.) actually, after all, really

(n./m.) thread, cotton, wool, string; traffic route; (Geometry) line; few, little (of abstract nouns or numerals) | (char.) wire; clue; boundary; brink, verge; ideological or political line

(v./adv.) seem, appear; seemingly | (char.) used to form a particle 似的

(n.) government official | (char.) state-owned, official; public, general; organ

(n.) fire | (n./adj.) anger; (TCM) internal heat; flourishing; red | (radical.) Fire | (n.) (TCM) fire | (char.) firearms, firing; urgently, pressingly

(v.) snap, break; cut off, stop; (of river) to dry up | (v.) to intercept, to quit; to get rid of | (adv.) (lit.) absolutely (often used in negative sentences) | (v.) to judge, to decide

(n.) essence, extract; energy, spirit; sperm; goblin, demon | (n.) (TCM) essence of life, fundamental substance maintaining the body's functions | (adj./adv.) refined, picked; skilled, proficient; delicate, exquisite; smart, clever, shrewd; (spoken) extremely, very

(adv./adj./v.) completely; full (of); entire, whole; to fill; to expire, to reach a certain limit | (char.) feel satisfied; complacent, conceited

(m.) measure word for pencils; a piece of music, tune, song etc.; branch (of office, etc.); twelve earthly branches | (v.) erect, prop up; withstand; support; protrude; send (sb.) away; pay or draw (money) | (radical.) branch

(v.) to look at; watch, inspect; look upon as

(v.) disappear; eliminate, remove; pass the time in a leisurely way; take, need

(char.) get over, jump over; pass, go through; exceed, overstep; be at high pitch; (lit.) plunder; superior | (adv.) the more..., (the more...) | (n.) State of Yue in the Zhou Dynasty; east Zhejiang; referring to Vietnam