Most Common Chinese Characters (page 22)

(v./n.) reveal, show, expose; dew | (v.) (oral) reveal, show, expose

(adv.) forever

(v.) shout, cry; breathe out; call, page | (onomat.) howling sound (of wind, etc.)

(n./m.) taste, flavor; smell, odor, scent; kind (of ingredients of Chinese medicine prescription) | (char.) interest, mood, tone; distinguish the flavor; reflect on; food, delicacy

(adj.) rude, rough; untamed, undomesticated; unrestrained | (char.) open country, wild land; being out of office; illegal; boundary

(char./m.) fight, quarrel; measure word used for planes, machines and the like | (n./v.) frame, shelf; erect, put up; ward off, withstand; help, support

(char.) territory, region, realm, domain, field

(n.) sand | (char.) (of watermelon) fleshy; (of voice) husky; sth granular or powdery; utensils made of sand or pottery clay | (v.) (dialect) to sieve, to sift

(v.) fall; drop; lose; lag behind; decrease | (v.) (used after a verb as complement) indicating removal, departure or finish | (v.) to exchange; to wag; to turn

(char.) to include; to draw together (muscles, etc.) | (v.) to add parentheses or brackets on texts

(n.) warship, vessel

(n.) fish | (radical.) fish

(adj./v.) miscellaneous, varied, mixed; extra; to mix, to mingle

(v.) miss, delay; hinder, impede | (char.) incorrect; error, mistake; mistakenly

(char.) bay, gulf; bend in a stream | (v.) to cast anchor

(char.) the abbreviation of Jilin Province | (char.) lucky

(v.) decrease, reduce; subtract, deduct, minus

(v.) to weave; to edit; to compose (lyrics, scripts) | (v.) organize, group, form; fabricate, make up | (char.) book, copy (often used in titles of books); part (bigger than chapter); authorized staff, size of an establishment

surname Chu | abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together | Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)

(av.) consent, agree; be willing to | (char.) (lit.) meat or flesh attached to the bone

(v.) survey, measure, test | (char.) conjecture, infer, speculate, guess

(v.) fail, lose, be defeated; to defeat | (v.) to spoil, to tarnish; to become worn or rotten; to fade or wither

(n.) house; room

(v.) run; escape; walk, go to; run errands; leak; (of liquids) evaporate | (v.) (of animals) to paw (the ground)

(n./v.) dream; to dream; (fig.) wishful thinking

(v.) disperse, break up; distribute; remove, get rid of | (v./adj./n.) to become loose, to fall apart; loose, free; scattered; (TCM) medicinal powder

(adj./v.) warm, lukewarm; to warm up, to heat up; to review | (char.) temperature; gentle, tender, mild in temperament

(adj.) sleepy; tired; difficult, hard | (v.) to trap, to surround; be stranded; (dialect) to sleep

(n.) sword

(adv.) gradually, slowly | (v.) (lit.) flow into; soak, be saturated

(v.) close, seal | (m.) measure word for something enveloped | (char.) an envelope or something like an envelope | (v.) confer (a title, territory, etc.) upon

(v.) to rescue; to help, to relieve

(adj.) expensive, valuable | (n.) Gui (the abbreviation of Guizhou Province) | (v.) the value lies in | (adj.) (polite expression) your | (char.) (of people) noble, powerful, honored; highly valued

(n.) spear; rifle, gun, firearm; thing resembling a gun | (char.) to substitute for sb in an examination

(v./n.) be short of, lack; be incomplete; be flawed; be absent; vacancy, vacant position

(n.) story, storey (of a building), floor; superstructure; (used in shop names); archway | (n.) building with storeys

(n.) county, a district

(char.) esteem, value; prevailing custom; lofty, noble | (conj./adv.) (lit.) still, yet; even

(adv./m.) (in the negative) in the least; (unit of length) hao (= 1/3 decimillimetre); (unit of weight) hao (= 0.005 grams) | (char.) fine tapering animal hair; writing brush; milli-

(v.) to move, to shift; to change