Most Common Chinese Characters (page 41)

(n.) pottery | (char.) make pottery; cultivate, educate; contented, happy | (char.) a character used in the name of a man in ancient China (see 皋陶)

(n./adj.) animal, beast; brutal, bestial

(char.) curtain, tent | (char.) account (variant of 账)

(char.) decorate; cover up; play the role of; polish (a piece of writing); decoration

(n./v.) loan; to borrow, to lend; to shirk (responsibility)

(char.) (lit.) flourishing; proper, good (often used in place names)

(v.) to narrate; to talk; (lit.) to assess; (lit.) sequence, order (same as 序)

(v.) to lie (down), to repose

(n.) steel | (v.) to reinforce the edge (of a knife) by adding steel; to sharpen, to whet

(n.) groove, furrow; ditch; gully, ravine

(v.) mail, post, send | (v.) to place, to entrust; to depend on

(v.) hold up, support with the hand; place a hand on sth for support | (char.) to help

(v./m.) spread, unfold; pave, lay; (dialect) measure word for heatable adobe bed | (n.) plank bed; shop, store; courier station (in ancient times)

surname Deng

(char.) (of life) long; age; birthday (of elderly people); (euphemism) funerary, for burial

(v.) to fear, to dread

(char.) ask

(n.) soup; boiling water; hot spring | (n.) Tang (a surname) | (char.) (of water) flowing

(v./n.) to steal, to rob; robber, thief

(adj.) fat, greasy; loose-fitting; (of land) rich, fertile; lucrative | (n./v.) fertilizer; to fertilize; get rich by illegal means

(v.) taste, try (usually food) | (v./adv.) to experience; (formal) ever, once

(char.) hurried, hasty

(char.) splendor, brightness; to shine

(char.) tackle, deal with | (char.) have no choice; (rhetorical question) how

(n.) button; knot; circle of thread (on a screw) | (v.) button up; cover with an inverted bowl; put (a label on sb.); detain, arrest; deduct; smash or spike (a ball); pull (trigger)

(char.) imperial court; monarchical government

Macao (abbr. for 澳門|澳门[Ao4 men2]) | Australia (abbr. for 澳大利亞|澳大利亚[Ao4 da4 li4 ya4])

(par.) indicating that sth is obvious; indicating hope or advice; (within a sentence) indicating a pause to draw listener's attention

(n.) director; Dong (a surname)

(v.) to move; to change; (lit.) to change one's official post

(v.) coagulate, congeal; focus, concentrate

(char.) console; feel relieved

(v./adj.) loathe, detest; be bored with; satiated

(adj.) dirty, filthy, unclean | (n.) internal organs (heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney) | (n.) (TCM) viscus (five internal organs: heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys)

(char.) gallop; rise, soar; turn over; (used after a verb) indicating repeated actions | (v.) clear out, vacate

(char.) deep and remote; tranquil, quiet; dim, gloomy; hidden; (lit.) to imprison; nether world

(v.) to blame, to complain; to resent, to feel bitter about

(n.) shoe

(v.) lose; throw away | (v.) put aside

(v.) bury, cover up; (fig.) conceal, hide | (char.) blame somebody (for something); complain (about) (not used alone)