Most Common Chinese Characters (page 33)

(n.) dog

(char./m.) tail; tail-like part, rear; end; remaining part; measure word used for fish | (char.) hairs on a horse's tail; spikelets on a cricket's tail

(char.) etiquette; gift; appearance, bearing; instrument; (lit.) admire, yearn for

(v./adv.) to steal; stealthily, secretly | (char.) thief, pilferer; find time; loaf around

(v.) run quickly; rush, hasten; flee in a hurry, elope | (v./prep.) head to, be close to; towards

(char.) pearl; bead

(n.) insect, worm; (fig.) person with an undesirable trait | (radical.) insect

(v.) (lit.) stay, halt, stop; be stationed

(n./m.) hole; Kong (a surname); measure word for cave-dwellings

(char.) proper, suitable; to suit, to fit; (often in the negative) should, ought to

(char.) Chinese mugwort; (lit) cease, stop; (lit) beautiful; old | (n.) (TCM) moxa | (char.) (lit.) to repent

(n.) bridge

(adj.) tasteless, weak, light, pale | (adj.) cold, indifferent | (adj.) (of business) dull, slack; meaningless, trivial

(n./v.) wing (of a bird, an insect or an aeroplane); flank (of an army); (lit.) to assist (a ruler)

(v.) hate | (char.) regret, remorse

(adj./v.) many, complicated; to propagate, to breed

(adj.) chill, chilly, cold, wintry; stricken with terror or fear; poor

(v./n.) to accompany; partner

(char.) sigh in lamentation; recite with a cadence; exclaim in admiration

(char.) dawn, daybreak; day | (n.) female protagonist (in Beijing opera)

(char.) recover | (adv.) (used reiteratively as 越) the more..., (the more...); more and more...

(n./adj.) tide, trend; damp, moist; (dialect) inferior in a certain skill; (slang) fashionable

(n.) grain, food; grain tax

(v.) shrink, contract; recoil, draw back; economize, reduce (the expense) | (char.) only used in 缩砂密

(v.) finish, cease, stop | (v.) to dismiss, to remove from office

(v.) get together, gather, assemble

(n.) path, road; means, way; (short for) diameter | (adv.) directly, straightaway

(adj./adv.) appropriate; just, exactly

(v./m./n.) choose, select, carry things on a shoulder pole; shoulder pole with its load; load carried on a shoulder pole | (v./n.) bring into the open, make public; provoke, incite, stir up; poke, pick; raise; holding up with a pole; cross-stitch; rising stroke

(n./m.) bag

(adj.) grey | (n.) ash; dust, powder; lime | (char.) discouraged, disheartened

(v.) catch, seize, arrest

(char.) (lit.) slow, slowly | (n.) Xu (Chinese family name)

(char.) treasure; delicate and delicious food; precious, valuable; to value highly

(char./m.) curtain, screen; tent, canopy; (in ancient China) office of a commanding officer; act of a play

(v.) to reflect; to light up; to show a film

(v.) split, break open

(char.) safe, peaceful; most, grand; (abbreviation) Thailand | (adv.) (lit.) too, excessively, over

(v.) to separate; be at a distance from

(char.) open; start; inspire, enlighten; state, inform