Most Common Chinese Characters (page 29)

abbr. for Egypt 埃及[Ai1 ji2] or Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亞|埃塞俄比亚[Ai1 sai4 e2 bi3 ya4]

(v.) hug, embrace, carry or hold in one's arms | (v.) to hold or harbor (a thought); to adopt; to have one's first (grand)child

(n./v.) drum; drum-shaped object; to play, to beat (musical instrument); to inspire; to raise, to bulge, to swell | (radical.) drum

(v.) to plant | (char.) to set up, to establish; flora, plant

(adj.) pure; skilled

(n.) summer | (n.) Xia Dynasty; China

(v.) endure, tolerate; be hardhearted enough (to do sth.); hold back, forbear

(char./m.) page; leaf, sheet | (radical.) page

(char.) outstanding person; prominent, outstanding

(v.) build | (char.) an ancient 3-stringed instrument played by striking with a bamboo stick

(v.) break, snap; die (young); suffer the loss of; discount; be convinced; turn back; bend, twist; take the place of; convert into | (n.) discount; (of Chinese character) turning stroke | (v.) snap, be broken; lose money in business | (v.) roll over, turn over; pour (back and forth between two containers) | (adj.) bending, twisted | (m.) scene (of a play), act | (v./adj./n.) to fold; capable of being folded up; booklet, folder, passbook

(n.) Zheng (a surname); Zheng (a vassal state in the Zhou Dynasty)

(n.) shell | (radical.) shell

(char.) to honor, to respect; senior, noble; your honorable | (m.) (measure word) for gods, goddesses, statues or guns

surname Wu | area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai | name of states in southern China at different historical periods

(char.) better (than the others); outstanding; intelligent; elegant, beautiful; excellent person; show | (v.) (of grain crops) to put forth flowers or ears

(v.) to muddle along; to get along with; to pass off as | (v.) to mix | (char.) (same as 浑) turbid, muddy; foolish, stupid

(n.) subject, minister, official under a feudal ruler; your servant (self-address used by officials when speaking to the emperor; (archaic) I, your faithfully (self-address to show modesty) | (radical.) subject

(char.) elegant; (lit.) proper; graceful; one of the three sections of The Book of Songs | (char.) (lit.) acquaintance; (lit.) usually; (lit.) very

(v.) shake, flap; brace up, rise with force and spirit; vibrate, jitter

(v.) dye; catch (a disease), acquire (a bad habit); pollute

(v.) to ladle, to contain, to hold | (adj.) flourishing; abundant; great, grand; widespread; sparing no effort; profound; vigorous

(v./adj.) get angry, take offense; raging, vigorous

(v./n.) to dance; to wield; to play with; dance

(adj./n.) round; (also: perfect, satisfactory; of songs sweet and agreeable); circle

(v.) do, work, be engaged in; to work out; to organize, to set up; to make (sb.) suffer | (v.) to get, to obtain

(char.) crazy, mad; violent; wildly, unrestrainedly (usually of pleasure) | (adj.) arrogant, overbearing

(v.) manage, put in order, arrange, administer; make plans

(v./n.) one's surname is; surname

(char.) disabled, defective, incomplete; remaining | (v./adj.) to persecute, to torture; cruel, brutal, inhumane

(n.) autumn, fall; one year; period of troubled time; harvest time; swing

(v.) to bank up with earth; to train, to foster, to cultivate

(v./n.) be lost; to confuse; be fascinated by, be crazy about; fan, enthusiast

(adj.) honest, sincere

(adj./n.) wide; well-off; width, breadth | (adj./v.) lenient; to be lenient; to extend; to relieve, to relax

(char.) (lit.) eaves; house; space, universe; manner, airs

(adj./adv.) ferocious; vigorous; abruptly; with a spur of energy; (oral) as much as one likes

(v.) to arrange, lay, or put; to put on or affect (an attitude, a look) | (v.) to sway, wag, or wave | (n.) pendulum (of a clock) | (n.) lower part (of upper garments); hem or bottom (of a skirt)

surname Mei

(v.) destroy, ruin; burn up; defame, slander