Most Common Chinese Characters (page 44)

(adj.) (color) light; shallow; superficial; simple, easy; short in time; not intimate; slight | (onomat.) (lit.) gurgle, babble (sound of flowing water)

(char.) honest, sincere, candid

(char.) to correct; to gather together; to entangle; to supervise

(v.) drill; go through, penetrate; study intensively; secure personal gain, take advantage of... | (n.) diamond, jewel; drilling device

(char.) glittering; quartz or rock crystal; any crystalline substance

(adv.) (lit) how (used to ask rhetorical questions)

(n.) gorge

(adj.) dark green or blue; gray, ashy | (char.) (lit.) sky, heaven

(v.) spurt, spout, spray; puff; snort, sneeze | (adj./m./n.) (dialect) (of smells) strong; crop; busy season (of vegetables, fish, fruits, etc.)

(v.) consume, cost; waste (time) | (char.) bad news

(char.) approach; rise high; to insult or maltreat; ice

(v.) knock, beat, strike; (oral) fleece, overcharge

(n.) bacterium, fungus, mushroom

(v.) lose money in business; compensate; apologize

(v.) spread on, apply, smear, paint; scrawl, scribble | (char.) (lit.) mud; shoal

(char.) essence

(adj.) flat (having a smaller depth than width) | (char.) (refers to a) small boat

(v.) lose money; lack, be short of; be fortunate that; treat unfairly; (used to show irony)

(char.) quiet; lonely

(n.) coal

(n.) bear | (adj./v.) (dialect) useless, cowardly; to rebuke, to scold

(char.) respectful, courteous

(adj.) wet, damp, moist; (TCM) humidity (one of the external factors causing diseases)

(char.) obey, follow, abide by

(adj./v.) warm; to warm up

(n.) sugar; sweet, candy; (chemistry) sugar, carbohydrate

(v./n.) endow with; compose (a poem); (in ancient times) land tax, levy; (literary genre) prose poem, rhyme prose

(char.) restrain, repress | (conj.) (lit.) or; but, however; besides

(char.) (lit.) order; decade (usu. of the age of the elderly); official salary

(n.) hat, cap; cap-like cover for sth

(n./v./adj.) sorrow, grief; to mourn; to pity, to sympathize; sorrowful, mournful

(char.) long-standing, long-time; (lit.) old, experienced; (lit.) famous person | (m.) (oral, for) night | (char.) (in ancient China) constellation | (v.) to lodge for the night

(v.) step on, stamp; go to the scene (to make a survey) | (char.) used in the word 踏实

(adj./adv.) mushy; rotten, decayed; worn-out; messy, disorderly; bright-colored; completely, utterly

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(v.) shake, tremble | (v.) jerk, flick; rouse, stir up; expose; (sarcastic) be complacent, be cocky

(v.) press from both sides | (v.) carry under one's arms, place between, to mix | (n.) folder, clip, clamp, holder | (adj.) double layered, lined | (char.) (spoken Chinese) armpit (used only in this word 夹肢窝)

(char.) (lit.) elder brother; offspring, progeny

liver (CL:葉|叶[ye4]) | (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) | (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy