Most Common Chinese Characters (page 27)

(n.) shop, store; inn

(n.) ghost | (char.) person with bad habits; furtive, dishonest | (n./adj.) sinister plan or trick; terrible, tempest; (spoken) smart, clever (usually of children) | (radical.) ghost

(adj.) soft; gentle; feeble; not tough; easily influenced, indecisive

(char.) ceremony | (char.) law, canon; standard or principle; standard work of scholarship; allusion; to pawn, to pledge; (lit.) be in charge of

(n./v.) to want, to desire; longing, desire; (lit.) require, demand | (adv.) (lit.) about to, just going to

(char.) Buddhist gods or immortals, Bodhisattva; surname

(char./m.) partner, mate; company, partnership; employee; meals; measuring word for a group of people | (adv.) together, jointly

(v./m.) to meet with, to encounter (disaster or misfortune, etc.); round; time, turn

(n./v.) tray, plate; dish; to coil up; to build; to examine; to transfer the ownership; to transport | (char./m.) sth in the shape of a plate or a tray; market quotation, current price; domain; (measure word) game, set, dish, reel, coil

(n.) father, dad

(v.) to expand, to enlarge, to extend

(v./n.) to cover; to shield; to build or construct; cover, lid; (of tortoise or crab) shell | (v.) to affix, to imprint; to overwhelm, to surpass | (adv./conj.) (lit.) about, approximately; for, because

(v.) do, manage, handle; play with; get, fetch; get sth. or sb. into a condition; play (tricks) | (n.) alley, lane, alleyway

(adj.) male | (char.) grand, imposing; powerful, mighty; powerful person or state

(adj./v.) steady, stable, firm; (of a person) sedate, reliable; sure; to stabilize

(v.) forget

(num.) a hundred million

(v./n.) to jab, to pierce; to irritate; to assassinate; to ridicule; thorn, sting | (onomat.) ripping or tearing sound

(v.) to support; to embrace, to hold in one's arms; to gather around; to throng, to swarm

(char.) apprentice; (derog.) fellow; believer of a religion; imprisonment; be on foot; infantry; empty; merely; in vain

(n.) wet nurse, woman who looks after small children | (n.) (dialect) mother; (respectful term of address to old married woman) madame

(n.) Yang (a surname) | (char.) poplar

(adj./adv.) neat, uniform; identical, same; all ready or present; simultaneously | (radical.) even | (v.) even up at one point or along one line; reach the height of, be level with | (n.) Qi (state in the Zhou Dynasty); Southern Qi Dynasty (479-502); Qi (short-lived regime established at the end of Tang Dynasty); Qi (Chinese family name)

(n./v.) match, competition; to compete | (char.) (in ancient times) offer sacrifice to gods

(char.) interest, delight; inclination, bent; interesting

(v./adj./n.) to bend, to bow; bent, curved; unjust; bend (of a river); remote area; leaven, yeast | (n.) tune, song, melody; music (of a song); a type of verse for singing (popular in the Yuan Dynasty)

(n.) knife, sword, blade; knife-shaped object; (transliteration) dollar (mainly referring to US Dollars) | (radical.) knife

(n.) bed; bed-shaped thing | (m.) measure word for quilts

(v.) welcome, meet; confront

(n.) ice; ice-like object, crystal | (v.) (of sth.) to feel cold; to freeze, to ice

(adj./adv.) diffident, timid; weak; (dialect, of photos) blurry; vainly | (char.) empty, void; humble; false; guiding principle; emptiness; (TCM) deficiency

(v.) enjoy oneself, play; employ, resort to | (char.) hold and fondle; enjoy, appreciate; ruminate, ponder; treat lightly

(v.) to analyze; to separate

(n.) window

(v./adj.) wake up; regain consciousness; be awake; become aware; eye-catching

(char.) wife | (v.) (lit) marry a girl to (a man)- seldom used today

(v./adj.) disclose, reveal; thorough; complete | (v.) to pass or seep through, to penetrate; to show, look or appear

(v.) buy

(v.) replace, substitute for, fill in for | (prep.) on behalf of, for | (char.) (lit.) declining, waning

(v./n.) fill in, stuff; close up, stop up; stopper, plug | (char.) block up | (n.) stronghold of strategic importance