Most Common Chinese Characters (page 25)

(char.) select, choose, pick | (v.) pick, select

(v./m.) look for, search, seek; ancient measure of length of about eight chi (see 尺)

(n.) factory, workhouse | (radical.) cliff

(v.) sleep

(adj./v.) extensive, ample, rich; to obtain, to win | (char.) to know widely, be well-informed, be erudite | (char.) to play (chess); to gamble

(v.) to tie or strap something tight; (dialect) to force or compel | (v./n.) to rein in (horse); to coerce; to command; to inscribe; (lit.) halter | (m.) (abb. unit of illumination) lux, meter-candle

(n./v.) smoke; cigarette, cigar; tobacco; to be irritated by smoke | (char.) smoke-like thing, vapor, mist; soot; opium

(v.) teach, instruct; award, grant, confer

(char.) promise, consent, make a promise | (char.) used in the transliteration of a non-Chinese name | (interj.) yes, yeah

(char.) human relationships, ethics; logical sequence, order; to match, to peer

(n.) bank, coast, shore | (char.) (lit.) high, tall; haughty, proud

(adj.) profound, esoteric

Only in compound words

(v.) sell; betray (one's country or friends); spare no effort; show off; make a living by one's skill

(char.) referring to Russia; (lit.) very soon, suddenly

(v.) deep-fry; scald (as a way of cooking) | (v.) explode, burst; blow up; (spoken) fly into a rage; (spoken) scurry, flee in terror

(v./n.) to record, to write down; year | (v.) carry | (char.) fill (the road), be all over (the road); (lit.) and, as well as

surname Luo | old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)

(char.) healthy; to strengthen; be good at

(char.) hall; (also: special room; cousins of the same paternal grandfather; lit. mother) | (n./m.) courtroom (in ancient China); (used for furniture) set, suite; (used for classes) period; (used for scenes or murals)

(n./pro.) side; lateral radical (of a Chinese character); other, else | (char.) extensive; heretical

(char.) palace; temple; uterus

(v.) drink | (v.) shout loudly

(v.) borrow; lend | (v.) to make use of; to make a pretext of

(char.) monarch, sovereign; (polite form of address) gentleman, Mister

(v.) forbid | (v.) bear, stand, endure; restrain oneself | (char.) to imprison; what is forbidden by law; royal residence

(char.) hidden; sinister; shade; private parts (of the female); moon; time; nether world; negative; north of a mountain or south of a river | (n.) (TCM) yin | (adj.) overcast, cloudy

(n.) garden, park

(v.) seek, pursue work for; scheme, plan; consult

surname Song | the Song dynasty (960–1279) | Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]

(v.) to avoid; to prevent; to keep away

(v.) grab, clutch; master, grasp; scratch; pay special attention to; take charge of; control, attract; arrest

(char.) glorious, honorable; thriving; prosperous

(char.) aunt on father's side, father's sister; husband's sister, sister-in-law; girl; nun, priestess | (adv.) (lit.) tentatively, for the time being

(n.) grandchild; relative of grandchildren's generation; child of one's grandchildren; second growth of plants | (n.) Sun (a surname)

(v.) escape, run away; evade, shirk

(n.) tooth | (radical.) tooth | (char.) ivory; tooth-shaped object

(v./m./n.) to bind, to tie; to control, to restrain; bunch, bundle (flowers, arrows, hair, etc.); beam (of light)

(v.) to jump, to leap, to skip; to bounce; to beat, to throb; to make omissions

(n./v./m.) peak, top; reject, turn down; be equal or equivalent to; measure word for hats | (v.) to carry on the head; push from below or behind, prop up; to gore/butt; bear, stand; go against; to retort; to substitute; to transfer the ownership