Most Common Chinese Characters (page 36)

(char.) examine a patient, diagnose

(char.) slave; enslave; (derog.) servile follower; I, me (old self-reference of girls)

(char.) take a photograph of, shoot; absorb, assimilate; act for

(v.) lose; be bereaved of; be disappointed | (char.) funeral; mourning

(char.) dirty; dirt, filth; to corrupt; to defile, to pollute; to insult

(v.) to cross (water); tide over, pull through; to ferry across

(n.) flag, banner | (char.) banner (administrative division in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region)

(n.) Gan (the abbreviation of Gansu Province) | (radical.) sweet | (char.) sweet (opposite to bitter); be willing or voluntary

(v.) be able to bear or endure

(v./n.) lean on; rely on; proof, evidence | (conj./prep.) no matter (how, what, where, when, etc.); on the basis of, by virtue of; in light of, according to

(v./m.) fasten, bind up; bundle, bunch, sheaf | (v./m./n.) prick, puncture; plunge, get into; jug (for draft beer)

(v.) plunder, rob, grab; compete for; rush; scrape, scratch | (v.) go into the opposite direction, go against, (lit) bump against, knock

(char.) ends of silk threads; beginning; (lit.) remnants; (lit.) task, cause; mental state

(adj.) coarse; broad, wide (in diameter or breadth), thick; careless | (adv.) roughly, slightly | (adj.) gruff, husky; rude, unrefined, vulgar

(n.) shoulder | (char.) to take on, to undertake, to shoulder

(char.) beam (of roof); ridge (of an object or human body) | (char.) bridge; horizontal beam (as a support); a surname | (n.) Liang (Chinese surname); Liang (name of state or dynasty in ancient China)

(char.) unreal, illusory; magical, changeable

abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fei1 lu:4 bin1]

(adv.) all, each and every, in all cases

(v./adj.) break; broken, fragmentary; long-winded

(n.) time (conceived as past, present and future); (geology) aeon, eon

(n.) father's younger brother; (general form of address) uncle; (lit.) third among brothers

(n.) cliff; rock, stone; grotto

(v./adj.) to sway; to wander; to rinse; to clear away, to get rid of; vast, broad and level; wanton, debauched

(v.) to sum up

(v.) crawl; climb; sit up, get up from bed

(n.) lotus; Holland, the Netherlands | (char.) carry on one's shoulder or back; take on (responsibilities); amount of electricity; load, burden

(char.) know the details, specify; entirely, completely; (lit.) detailed

(n.) stem (of fruit)

(v.) to return

(n.) well; thing in the shape of a well | (char.) neat, orderly; home village or town

(adj./v.) strong, robust, sturdy; to strengthen, to make better | (char./m.) grand, magnificent; a Chinese ethnic group; (TCM) one burning of moxa or moxibustion

(adj.) (of object) thin; (of emotion or attitude) cold; (of land) infertile; (of taste) weak | (char.) meager, weak; to despise, to disdain | (char.) thin; slight, meagre; unkind, ungenerous; frivolous; harsh; to reduce; to treat shabbily; to draw near | (char.) (used in the name of) mint

(char.) (only the reduplication of this word is used) quiet; quietly | (char.) silent, quiet; (lit.) worried, sad

(v.) to sweep; to eliminate; to move quickly right and left; to scan | (char.) broom (used in certain words)

(char.) quick; clever; perceptive, sharp-witted

(v.) hinder, obstruct, impede

(char.) breed, reproduce | (char.) used in 骨殖 only

(adj.) be detailed, clear

(char.) (lit) enlighten, guide