Most Common Chinese Characters (page 24)

(n.) spring | (char.) sexual desire, lust; life, vitality

(n.) village, countryside; hometown; township (rural administrative unit)

(v.) attach, add, adhere; get close, be near; depend on, rely on

(v.) to absorb, to soak up; to inhale, to draw, to suck; to attract

(char.) give, bestow, grant | (pro.) (lit.) I, me

(char.) gift; courtesy, etiquette; ceremony; norm of conduct; (lit.) to respect

(n.) Gang (the abbreviation of Hong Kong) | (n.) harbor, port

(n.) rain | (radical.) rain

(par.) used in place of 啊 after a syllable ending in a, e, i, o, etc. | (onomat.) creak | (interj.) wow, oh (indicating surprise)

(n./adj./v.) board, plank; shutters (of a store); stiff, dull; look serious | (m.) used for a sheet (of buttons, etc.) | (char.) clapper (used in music performance); accented beat (esp. in traditional music) | (char.) (used in the word 老板)

(char.) front courtyard; hall; law court; (TCM) middle of the forehead

(char.) woman; married woman; wife

(char.) come back; to return, to give back | (v.) used between two same verbs, indicating the action does not lead to a corresponding result | (v./prep.) converge; belong to; (be managed or controlled) by...

(n.) eyeball

(n.) meal, food; cooked rice or other cereals

(n.) forehead; top part; horizontal inscribed board; specified number or amount

(v.) contain, embrace | (v.) to keep sth. in mouth; to harbor, to cherish

(adj.) smooth, without any difficulty; harmonious; fluent, well-arranged | (v./prep.) go in the same direction as; follow; put in order; turn around (sth); be fit for; along

(v.) transport; (lit.) donate or contribute (money) | (v.) lose, be beaten

(v.) shake, rock

(v.) enroll, hire, employ | (v.) beckon, gesture; attract; provoke, tease | (v.) confess, admit | (n.) movement in wushu; trick, move, device, idea

(char.) marriage; to marry

(v./adv./conj.) take (something) off; (of skin or hair) shed; miss out (words); (lit.) maybe; (lit.) if | (char.) remove, get rid of; leave, get out of

(v.) to mend; to make up for; to nourish | (char.) (lit.) benefit, help

(char.) say, regard as; call, name

(char.) supervise

(n./adj./v.) poison; narcotic drug; poisonous influence; poisonous; sinister, pernicious; to kill with poison

(n./v./adj.) oil, gas, greasy; to paint or varnish; be stained with oil; glib, oily

(char.) treat, cure, heal

(char.) travel; traveler; (military) brigade; troops; (lit.) together

(char.) pool, marsh, swamp; favor, beneficence; luster (of metals, pearls, etc.); dampen, moisten

(n.) material, timber, ability, aptitude; capable person; coffin (old)

(v.) (of fire) go out; extinguish; perish; destroy, exterminate

(char.) drive out, expel; pursue, chase | (prep.) one by one

(pro./adv.) (lit.) nobody, nothing; do not; not; (indicating guess or rhetorical question)

(n.) pen, pencil, writing brush | (n./m.) strokes of Chinese characters; for a sum of money, deal or fund | (char.) to write; technique (of writing, calligraphy); handwriting, writing

(char.) flee, escape, run away; die, pass away; (lit.) lose, be gone; perish, fall; dead, deceased

(adj.) fresh, recently made; newly picked; bright-colored; tasty, delicious | (char.) seldom, rare, little | (char.) delicious food; aquatic food, seafood

(n.) word | (n.) statement, speech; words of songs; Ci (form of classical Chinese poetry)

(char.) sage; greatest master (of an art or skill); emperor; (religion) a form of address to the respected; capable, virtuous; sacred