Most Common Chinese Characters (page 21)

(char.) door; household, family; family status | (char.) an account (in the bank, etc.) | (m.) measure word for homes, households | (radical.) household

(char.) (of fire) fierce, intense; strong, fierce; staunch, upright; person who dies for a just cause; achievement

(adj./n.) foreign; ocean

(n.) elder brother (in a family); brother (term of address for a male cousin or brother-in-law); brother (endearing term for an older male)

(n./v.) rope; to look for; to investigate; to demand

(adv.) carelessly, recklessly | (n.) Hu (Chinese family name) | (char.) introduced from other nationalities or from abroad; Hu (nationalities living in the north and west of China in ancient times) | (char.) mustache, beard, whiskers; (used in 胡同)

(n.) section, item (in a legal document); fund, sum of money; name of the sender or recipient; pattern, style | (m.) item, clause (in official documents); kind, type | (char.) (lit) slow, leisurely; sincere; knock; receive with hospitality, entertain (a guest)

(v./prep.) to lean against; to stand sth. against...; to get close to; to depend on; to trust; by

(v.) comment, criticize; judge, appraise

(n.) edition, page, section | (n.) printing plate or block; (architecture) board frame

(n.) treasure, baby | (char.) precious, treasured; (honorific) your

(char./m.) measure word for building, mountain, city, etc.; constellation; (old) honorific salutation | (n.) seat; base, pedestal

(v./n.) explain; release, set free; let go; remove; lay down; Buddhism

(n.) scenery | (char.) situation; scene; to admire

(char.) turn around and look at; call on, visit; to patronize | (v.) look after, take into consideration

(n.) younger brother | (char.) (ancient Chinese) yielding, meek, gentle, agreeable

(v.) ascend, step on, climb; (of grain) ripen, mature | (v.) to publish, to record | (v.) to board

(n.) goods, commodities; currency, money; (derogatory) referring to a person (calling names, cursing)

(adv.) mutually, each other, one another

(v.) pay | (char.) hand over, to deliver

(n.) eldest among brothers; uncle; earl count

(adj.) slow, sluggish | (char.) supercilious, rude

Only in compound words

(v.) to change, to exchange, to convert

(v.) to smell | (char.) to hear; news, story; reputation; well-known

(char.) dangerous; dying; frightening; to endanger; (lit.) precipitous; (lit.) stately

(adj./v.) busy, very occupied; be busy, hurry

(n./v.) pit, stone, core; nucleus; to examine, to check | (n.) (spoken Chinese) pit, stone, core (of a fruit)

(adj.) dark, dim, dull (of light or color) | (char.) hidden, secret; muddled, confused

(n.) elder sister; elder female cousin; general term for young women

(char.) (introduce; never used alone)

(adj.) bad, broken | (v.) spoil, ruin; break down; (of foods) go off | (adj.) awful, very (describing the degree of mental or physic discomforts)

(v.) ask for, demand; take (a wife); incur, invite | (char.) send armed forces to suppress; denounce; discuss; (lit.) rule

(char.) beautiful; (lit.) attach oneself to | (char.) used in certain names of places

(adj./adv./n.) good; (lit.) very (much); good people

(v./n./adj.) order, sequence; (lit.) to arrange in order; preface; (old) school; (old) wings of a house; introductory

(v.) ascend, go up; promote, elevate | (m.) liter

(char.) supervise, inspect; prison, jail | (char.) name of imperial office (in ancient times)

(v.) be about to, just before; arrive; copy (model of calligraphy) | (v.) look down from above; come down, descend; face, be near

(adj./n./v.) bright; (of voice) loud and clear; light, lamp; to shine; (of thoughts) enlightened; to reveal, to disclose