Most Common Chinese Characters (page 2)

(v./n.) wear (clothes); come into contact with; apply, use; assign, dispatch; order; whereabouts | (n./v.) trick, move; move in chess; (dialect) to put in, to add | (par.) (after a verb to indicate an action is in a progress or in a certain state that continues) | (v.) attach, come in contact with; be affected (by...); catch fire; fall asleep | (aux.) used after a verb as a complement to indicate the result of the action

(adj.) next | (n.) below | (v.) (of rain, snow) to fall; go down, descend; finish or get off (work, etc.) | (v.) play (chess) | (v.) put sth. into; apply; form (opinion) | (m.) (to indicate repetition of an action); (to indicate one's ability or skill); (dialect, to indicate amount of sth in a container) | (v.) (used in the negative) be less than | (v.) (from a higher position) to go or come down to... | (v.) to issue or send (notice, order, etc.); to leave (stage, expressway, etc.); (of animal) give birth to, lay (eggs) | (char.) to capture; to yield

(char.) self, oneself | (radical.) self | (prep./adv.) since, from; naturally, certainly

(par.) (lit.) used between an attribute and a head noun; between the subject and the predicate to form a nominal phrase | (pro.) (lit.) this, that, it; used as the object of a verb | (char.) (lit.) go to, leave for

(n.) year; New Year | (char.) age; period of life; annual; period in history; things of or for the New Year

(par.) (used after a verb as a complement) indicating completion or a past state | (v./adv.) to pass, to cross; to live; to go through; to exceed; excessively, too | (v.) to spend (time); to celebrate (a birthday, a holiday) | (n.) fault, demerit, mistake | (v.) (used after another verb, indicating) moving from one place to another; changing in direction; excess in degree; doing better than

(n.) hair | (v.) send | (m.) measure word for bullet, shot | (v.) to shoot or emit; to produce or generate; to express or utter; to make a fortune; to become or turn; to show or present (feelings); to feel; (of food) rise, expand | (char.) to develop or expand; to diffuse or spread; to reveal or expose; to leave; to trigger or provoke; to set to work

(n.) after; back, behind; offspring, progeny | (char.) ruler, monarch; empress, queen

(v.) do, make; write, compose | (char.) workshop | (char.) to work; to rise, to raise; to regard as; to feign, to pretend; writings, work

(char./m.) neighborhood; native place; a Chinese unit of length(=1/2km) | (n.) inside, inner; lining (of a garment) | (radical.) village, mile

(v./n.) to use; to eat or drink; (usu. in the negative) to need; usefulness; expenses | (radical.) use | (prep.) with; hence, therefore (ancient Chinese, in letter writing)

(m.) measure word for river, stick-like things, wall, door, order, title, dishes, questions, items (etc.) | (n./v.) way, road, line; to speak, to say, to express | (char.) channel; way, method; direction; art; academic thought system

(char.) to move, to walk; to travel; to circulate; to perform, to practice; behavior; (lit.) trip | (v./adj./adv.) be ok, be all right; capable, competent; (lit.) soon | (n./v.) line, row; line of business, business firm; to rank (seniority among siblings) | (m.) measure word for line-like things | (radical.) go

(n./m.) bureau; location, place; measure word for school, hospital or building | (par.) (before a verb to form a noun phrase) that which sb...; (to indicate passive voice)

(pro./conj.) (lit.) so, like that; (lit.) but, nonetheless, however | (char.) right, correct; (suffix) used to form an adverb or adjective

(n.) family, home | (char.) school of thought; person who specializes in an area; person with certain identity; party, side; domestic | (m.) measure word for family, enterprise, company, store or bank

(m.) type, class, sort, kind | (v.) plant, grow, cultivate | (n.) species; breed; (of plant) seed, strain; guts, nerve, backbone | (char.) race; kind, branch, type

(n.) matter, affair, thing; job, work; accident, trouble; responsibility, involvement | (char.) to wait upon, to serve; be engaged in

(v.) become, turn, change into | (v.) succeed, accomplish, complete, finish; help to achieve or succeed | (v.) be capable, be able; be acceptable; to amount to (a considerable number or amount) | (char.) established; result; mature | (n.) one-tenth

(n.) direction; side, party; prescription; (geometry) square | (char.) method, way; region, place; upright, fair-minded | (adj./m.) square; measure word for square things | (adv.) at the time when; only, just | (radical.) square

(adj./v.) many, much, a lot of, more; be greater in quantity than expected | (adv.) (in questions) to what extent, how; (exclamatory sentence) how; to an unspecified extent | (adj.) (used after a number) more than, over; excessive, unnecessary

(v.) pass through, experience | (char.) sutra, scripture; unchanged rule; menstruation; (TCM) channels; longitude | (char.) constant; manage, run, deal; bear, endure; (lit.) hang oneself

(par.) suffix used after some Chinese characters; used as a syllable inserted in a line of a song for balance

(v.) go; go in order to do; (after a verb) indicating motion away from the speaker or a change in location | (char.) depart from; be lost; be apart (in time or space); last (year), previous; (linguistics) falling tone | (v.) remove; (euphemism) pass away, die; play a part or role (in a play)

(n.) law, regulation; method, approach | (char.) model, standard; to model after, to follow; (Buddhism) Law; magic | (n./m.) (referring to) France, French; (abbr.) farad

(v.) study, learn; imitate, mimic | (char.) subject of study, branch of learning (suffix); school, college; learning, knowledge

(v./prep.) be like, as, as if; (used to introduce the surpassed object) | (v.) live up to, comply with; (lit.) go to | (v.) (used in negative) be as good as..., can compare with...; for instance | (conj.) if, supposing

(adv.) all, both, without exception | (n.) capital, metropolis; city noted for a certain product | (adv.) indicating the cause (used before 是); even; already

(adv./v.) together, in common; be the same as | (adj.) same | (conj./prep.) and; with; for; as, like | (char.) only used in 胡同

(char.) present, current; available right now; cash, ready money | (v.) reveal, show, appear | (adv.) extempore

(v.) work as, be, act as | (prep.) when, just at | (v.) should, ought to; accept, deserve | (char.) be matched; be in charge of; to hold back, to block | (prep.) before, in front of | (v.) match or be equal to; regard or treat as; think; to pawn; (in Taiwan) to fail (an exam) | (char.) right or proper, when things happen

(adv./v.) not; not have, there is not; be less or fewer than; (in comparison) be not so...as | (v.) sink, submerge; disappear, hide; confiscate, expropriate; (lit.) come to an end

(v.) move, act; be movable | (v./adv.) to touch, to use; easily, frequently

(m.) used for flat things (flags, mirrors, etc.); used for times to meet sb | (n./adv./v.) face, side; (also: facade; aspect; surface; in persona; scope; orientation) | (radical.) face | (n./adj.) noodle; flour, wheat flour; powder; (dialect) soft and mealy

(prep./v.) (begin) from; rise, get up; occur, start; break out; build; draft, draw out; (used after a verb) move upwards | (m.) used for criminal cases, man-caused accident; group, batch (of goods or people)

(v.) look (at), watch, see; to read; see (a doctor); treat (a patient); pay a visit; depend on; regard as; try and see (what happens) | (v.) look after, take care of; keep an eye on | (v.) to judge or consider in one's point of view

(char.) stated, fixed, stipulated | (v./adv.) be stable or calm; to fix, to decide, to order; certainly, surely | (char.) fixed, settled, established

(n./m.) sky; day, daytime; weather; a period of time in a day; god; heaven; used for counting days | (char.) nature; inborn; season; overhead

(m.) minute (unit of time); unit of length, area or weight; unit of interest rate; unit for expressing fractions and percentages | (n.) point, mark; fraction; one-tenth; one tenth (of units of the metric system) | (v.) divide, separate; distribute or allot (to); differentiate, tell apart | (n.) part, component; scope of one's duty or right; factor concerning luck or talent or affection | (m.) fen, the monetary unit of China

(v.) give back, return; go back; do sth. in return | (adv.) also, in addition; yet, still | (adv.) even more | (adv.) passably, fairly