Most Common Chinese Characters (page 13)

(char./m.) beginning; the first; initially; highest; measure word for songs and poems | (char.) head; chief, leader; come forward (to confess a crime) | (radical.) leader

(n./v.) physician; medical science; to treat, to cure

(n.) bureau; functional office | (m.) a measure word used for games | (char.) part, portion; situation, state of affairs; chessboard; ruse, trap; gathering, party | (char.) constrained, confined

(v./adv.) dash forward; stick out, protrude; suddenly | (char.) (lit.) chimney

(v./adj./adv.) concentrate on; monopolize; particularly good in (a certain field); only

(n.) fee, charge; cost | (v.) to cost, to spend, to waste

(n./m.) order, number; size; date; person of a given type; (used to indicate the number of people) | (n./v.) order; brass wind instrument; bugle call; sign, signal mark; (TCM) to feel (the pulse); to give a number to | (n.) assumed name, literary name; name, title; (old) business house, firm | (v.) to howl, roar; to wail

(v.) exhaust, use up, try one's best | (v.) try to reach the greatest extent | (adv.) entirely, totally, wholly; only, exclusively | (adv./prep.) (before a noun of locality) furthest, extreme; (followed by 着) within the limits of..., with priority to...

(pro./adv.) other, another; in addition, besides

(n./m.) week; circuit, circle, round | (n.) Zhou (name of a dynasty in ancient China); Zhou (Chinese family name)

(adv./prep.) comparatively, relatively; than... (used to introduce the object of comparison) | (char.) compare, contrast; haggle, dispute

(char./m.) to pour (into); to concentrate; to enroll; (dialect) measure word used for deals or sums of money | (n./v.) stakes (in gambling); note, annotation; to explain with notes | (v.) to record, to register

(char.) language; sign, signal (as means of communication); proverb; word, sentence; (of birds or insects) twitter | (char.) (lit.) tell, inform | (char.) to speak, to express oneself

(adv.) just, only

(v.) to give an exam; to take an exam; to raise a difficult question | (char.) to check, to inspect; to study and verify; to consider; (lit.) one's diseased father

(v.) drop, fall; let fall; descend; cease, stop; receive, get; fall onto | (v.) leave out, be missing; leave behind; fall or drop behind | (v.) go down, fall (not used often) | (char.) lag, fall behind; be on the wane; write down; settlement; place where one or something stops | (char.) (dialect) only used in one word: 大大落落

(adj./n.) cyan, green; black; sth green; (fig.) young; the youth | (n.) Qing (the abbreviation of Qinghai Province) | (radical.) cyan, blue-green

(v./prep.) follow; comply with; let sb do as he likes; (oral) look like; along with

(v.) to choose; to elect | (char.) the selected person or thing; selection, anthology

(char./m.) row, line, column; category, sort; all, every; measure word for a row of things | (v.) put in order, list, set out; put in or enter (a list), rank

(char.) martial; military; fierce, valiant; (lit.) half a step

(adj.) red | (n.) bonus | (adj.) popular, successful | (char.) needle work (only used in the word 女红) | (char.) of happy occasions; revolutionary

(v./adj./n.) to cause to make a sound; to make a sound; noisy, loud; noise; echo

(conj.) though, although; even, even if

(v.) push; cut; grind; promote; postpone; elect; praise highly; infer; decline; refuse on a certain context

(char.) power, influence; momentum; outward appearance; posture; circumstance; male genitals

(v.) join, take part | (n.) Ginseng | (char.) refer, consult; call to pay one's respect to; to grasp or to understand (truth) | (char.) uneven, irregular

(char.) hope; scarce (variant of 稀)

(char.) ancient, old; sincere, simple and unadorned; antiquities

(char.) many, numerous; crowd, multitude

(v.) to compose, to construct; (of abstract things) to make up, to fabricate

(n./m.) house; room | (char./m.) house-like structure; branch of family; (old) measure word for daughters-in-law or concubines

(num./adj.) half; middle; very little | (adv.) partially, partly, half

(m.) section, length (measure word of class, sections of an article, etc.) | (n./v.) festival; save, economize | (n.) joint | (char.) appearing in the word 节骨眼儿 and 节子 | (char.) abridge; formality, etiquette; moral integrity

(n.) soil, earth, land; territory | (adj.) dorky, unsophisticated, unfashionable; local, indigenous; unrefined; homemade | (radical.) earth | (n.) (TCM) earth

(v.) send; throw, toss; plunge into; agree with; project; put in; go to, join; (oral) rinse

(pro.) some, certain

(n.) legal case, incident; table, desk; wooden tray (used in ancient times for foods)

(n.) the abbreviation of Heilongjiang Province | (adj./n.) black; dark; secret, unlawful; night, evening | (adj.) (of people, shop, etc.) wicked, sinister, bad | (radical.) black

(n.) (Math.) dimension | (char.) to preserve; to hold together; thinking, thought