Most Common Chinese Characters (page 12)

(char.) implement, utensil; organ; forbearance; to think highly of

(v./adv.) allow; contain, hold; tolerate; (lit.) perhaps, probably | (char.) facial expression; appearance, looks, bearing

(v./prep.) shine; towards | (v.) take a photo; light up | (prep.) according to | (v.) reflect (in a mirror) | (char.) photograph; license, permit; to take care of; to notify; to compare; to understand

(n.) beard; feeler | (v.) should, have to, must

(num.) nine, 9 | (char.) many, numerous; each of the nine nine-days period (beginning from the day after the Winter Solstice)

(v.) to increase, to add

(char.) to study, to research | (v.) to grind, to pestle

(v.) write; paint; compose (musical or literary work); describe, depict

(v.) to call | (v.) to weigh | (v.) name; to say; to praise | (v.) fit, match, be suitable | (n.) balance, scales, steelyard

(n.) enterprise, company | (char.) expect anxiously; stand on tiptoe

(num.) eight, 8 | (radical.) eight

(n.) achievement, meritorious service; effect, success, result; skill, technique; (physics) work

(par.) used at the end of a question or a rhetorical question; used within a sentence to mark a pause | (char.) (not alone; used in the transliteration) drug name (e.g. morphine) | (pro.) (dialect) what

(n./v.) parcel; bag, box; to wrap, to encircle; to undertake the whole thing; to assure | (m.) pack of something, e.g. cigarettes | (n.) lump, swelling; yurt | (v.) to include, to contain; to charter, to hire

(m.) slice, tablet; (of land, field, waters); (of voice, scene) | (char.) char used in reference to films | (radical.) slice | (n./v./adj.) thin piece; film; area; to slice (meat); brief, fragmentary

(char.) history; official historian

(char.) entrust, appoint; cast aside; shift; accumulate; committee; committee member; indirect; listless; (lit.) indeed | (char.) only used in the word 委蛇

(par.) suffix of some adjectives, adverbs or verbs; (lit.) placed at the end expressing a question or doubt (in traditional Chinese)

(v.) to check, to investigate, look up | (n.) Zha (Chinese family name)

(adj.) light, not heavy; small in number or degree; unimportant; gentle, soft | (char.) portable, light; relaxed; make light of, belittle; frivolous; imprudent

(char.) easy, simple; amiable; to change; to exchange

(adj./adv.) early; earlier, beforehand; as early as, for a long time | (n.) morning; (term of greeting) good morning

(adv.) once, formerly | (char.) related as between great-grandchildren and great-grandparents | (n.) Zeng (family name)

(v.) divide | (v./prep.) to remove, get rid of; except, besides

(char.) agriculture; peasant, farmer

(v.) give change | (v.) look for

(char.) clothes, garments; luggage, traveling bag | (v.) pretend; install; pack, load; dress up, decorate; act the role of

(adj.) broad, wide | (radical.) wide | (char.) numerous; expand, spread; (short for Guangdong, or Guangzhou City)

(v./adj.) be exposed and easily seen, show; apparent, visible; (of fame or power) great, prominent

(par.) (at the end of an imperative sentence) adding a softened tone | (v./n.) puff (at a pipe); bar (to drink) | (onomat.) bang, crack (sound of firing gunshot or something breaking) | (par.) (at the end of a declarative sentence) indicating uncertainty; (at the end of a question) indicating uncertainty with an estimate

(par.) an exclamation of unpleasant surprise | (char.) used before an appellation of relative | (char.) play up to, pander to; hill, winding area; donkey-hide glue (traditional medicine) | (char.) prefix of a person's name (as a term of endearment)

surname Li

(v.) to mark | (char.) mark; prize; bid | (char.) outward sign, symptom; standard, target

(v.) talk, talk about | (char.) remark, utterance

(v.) eat | (v.) live on, depend on; to suffer; to withstand; to eliminate, wipe out | (v.) to absorb (liquid); to exhaust, be a strain on

(n.) drawing, picture | (v.) to seek, to strive for, to pursue | (char.) to scheme, to plan; (lit.) to paint; plan, intention, attempt

(v./n.) to read (aloud); to study; to miss; to consider; idea, thought

(num.) six, 6

(v.) to lead; to cause; to make; to quote | (char.) to stretch out; to draw, to pull; to recommend

(char.) to experience; experience; all previous (years, occasions); one by one | (n.) calendar; calendric system