Most Common Chinese Characters (page 42)

(n.) spring (of water); mouth of a spring

(v.) gush, pour, surge | (n.) (dialect) branch of a river

(v.) have jurisdiction or command over | (char.) linchpin

(v.) avoid, hide

(n.) Jin (the abbreviation of Shanxi Province) | (v.) advance, go ahead; promote, advance, raise | (n.) Jin Dynasty (265-420)

(adj.) purple, violet

(char.) difficult, hard

surname Wei | name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States | Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty | the Wei dynasty 221–265 | Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history

surname Wu

(adj.) nervous | (adj.) unbearable (used after 得 as a complement)

(v.) wish; pray

(v.) to mail, to post | (char.) postal, mail; postage stamp

(v.) spit, throw up; give unwillingly | (v.) spit (out); say, tell; put forth

(adj.) fierce, ruthless; resolute, firm; relentless, harsh | (v.) restrain one's feelings to make a decision

(n./v.) ancient bronze mirror; warning, object lesson; to reflect; to inspect, to scrutinize

(v.) (lit.) speak, say; be called | (radical.) speak

(n.) tool; (lit.) fetters; weapon

(v.) bite; (of pliers or gears) grip; implicate; make definite; articulate; be nitpicking on words

(char.) near, adjacent; neighbor/neighbour

(adj.) red; naked; loyal or sincere | (radical.) red

(adj.) crowded, overfull, over occupied | (v.) squeeze, press; crowd, pack; push against; push aside, exclude

(v./adj./n.) to bend, to flex; curved, tortuous; bend, curve

(char.) chair (seldom used alone)

(v.) to accompany, to go with; to assist

(v.) cut, mow; give up, abandon

(v.) tear off; expose; uncover; (lit.) raise, hoist

surname Wei

(v.) realize, understand

(n./adj.) hearing; acute of hearing; sharp-witted, bright

(n.) fog; fine spray

(char.) the cutting edge of a sword, cutting edge; vanguard; (meteorology) front

(char.) ladder, stairs; sth shaped like a ladder or staircase

(n.) cat | (v.) (dialect) to hide oneself

(char.) auspicious, propitious

(adj.) broad, wide; rich; empty, impractical

(char.) to praise; reputation

(n./v.) chip; strategy, method; to manage, to plan

(char./m.) to cluster; grove, clump; crowd, collection

(v.) lead along, hold in hand; implicate, involve

(v.) (of birds, animals or insects) call, cry; make a sound, ring; to express, to voice (one's views, feelings)