Most Common Chinese Characters (page 35)

(char.) idol; mate, spouse; even (number) | (adv.) by chance

(char.) compile (not used alone)

(bound form) country; nation; state

(char.) (lit.) recover; vast, extensive

(v./adj.) go back on one's word; to shift the blame onto sb else; to blame; depend on; hold on in one place; (oral) good

(n./v.) circle, loop; to mark with a circle; to enclose; to tag (on social media platforms) | (n.) pen, corral, sty | (v.) to lock up (a person); to shut (livestocks) in a pen

(v.) stroke, touch, feel; fish for, fumble; try to find out; go in the dark, grope for

(v.) to face upwards; to admire; to depend on

(v./adj./n.) to moisten; to touch up, to polish; moist; glossy, sleek; benefit

(m.) heap, pile, crowd | (v./n.) to stack, to pile; stack, mass

(v.) bump; touch; come across, meet by chance; try one's luck; offend

(n.) small ship, light boat; naval vessel

(adv.) a little, a bit, slightly | (char.) see 稍息

(adj.) slow; late

(m.) a measure word for vehicles

(v./adj.) give up, abandon, abolish; dethrone; useless, invalid; disabled; dispirited

(char.) net, pure | (n.) painted face role (one of the four main roles in traditional Chinese opera) | (adv./adj./v.) only, all the time; clean; having nothing left; to make...clean

(char.) inauspicious; act of violence; (lit.) ruffian; (lit.) crop disaster | (adj.) (of people) brutal, fierce; terrible, fearful

(v./n.) sign, put one's signature to; make arrangements for; handle by proxy; government office

(n.) wall; rampart; cliff; sth. resembling a wall

(char.) (bound form, never used alone) imperial; drive (a carriage); rule, reign over | (char.) to resist

(v./adv.) to esteem, to revere; receive (from the superior) to present respectfully; to believe in; to attend to; with great honor

(char.) to revolve; to return; (lit.) soon | (n.) (usually with er-sound) circle; whorled part of the scalp | (v./adj./adv.) to turn sth on a lathe, to pare; spinning, turning; (dialect) at the time

(n.) winter

(n.) mine, pit, ore

(v./m.) raise; (of two or more persons) carry, move; (oral) argue, bicker; measure word for things carried by two persons

(n.) egg (of bird, turtle, snake) | (n.) egg-shaped thing

(n.) morning

(m.) volt, measure for electricity | (v.) lean over, rest on | (n.) hot season, dog days | (char.) lie prostrate; subside, go down; hide; yield, surrender; force to surrender

(v.) to blow, to blast; to play, to brag, to fail, be unsuccessful; (couple) to break up

(n.) chicken

(v./m.) to double; time, fold

(v./n./adj.) to stick with paste; paste; gruel (food made flour and maize); (of food) burnt (variant of 煳) | (v.) to plaster | (n.) paste (of food)

surname Qin | Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2] | short name for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]

(n.) shield; shield-shaped object; (currency) (Dutch) guilder, (Indonesian) rupiah, (Vietnamese) dong

(n.) cup, glass; trophy

(v.) rent, hire; rent out, let out, lease | (char.) rent; (in the past) land tax

(v.) ride (a horse, a bicycle), sit on the back of | (char.) horse or other animals one rides; cavalry man; straddle

(adj./v.) tired; (dialect) worn out, spent; to lack, be short of

(char.) grand; prosperous; swelling, bulging; intense, deep, profound | (char.) used to form some adjectives used in spoken Chinese