Most Common Chinese Characters (page 47)

(adj.) thin; (of clothes) tight | (adj.) lean (meat); (of land) poor, sterile

(v.) hang... over; put up; lift something together; come into contact, join; to take, travel by

(v.) to go towards, to attend

(char.) high mountain; wife's parents

(adj./v.) excellent, good, fine; praise, commend

(n.) cabin, hold

(adj.) smart, handsome; unusually talented

(char.) location, site, address

(char.) big, huge; face

(v.) to plow; to work (for a living), to be bent on

(char.) (of object) acute, sharp; (of senses) keen, sensitive; (of persons) energetic; vigor, vitality; rapidly

(v.) sew, stitch | (n.) seam; crack, fissure, crevice

(char.) regret, repent

(v.) invite to come | (char.) (lit.) solicit, seek; await the arrival of sb

(onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑) | tinkling of gem-pendants

-ism | only

(char.) scold, denounce; to repel, to exclude; to provide fund

(char.) house, residence | (v.) to stay at home a lot, to spend a lot of time at home, to be a homebody

(v.) add, increase; add a family member, have (a baby)

(v.) dig, excavate; discover (after a search); (dialect) scratch with fingernails

(v.) breathe out | (char.) to scold, to curse

(char.) to bring to court; (lit.) to argue or debate

(n.) oxygen

(char.) great, vast, grand; a great many

(n./m.) feathers, plume; wings (of birds or insects); note of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale; measure word for birds | (radical.) feather

(m.) measure word of weight, equal to 500g, half kilo | (radical.) axe | (char.) (ancient) axe; Jin (surname)

(adj.) cool (pleasant, fine) | (char.) cruel; very, extremely

(v.) sack, plunder | (v.) to dash, to rush

(char.) monster, goblin, evil spirit; evil and fraudulent; gorgeous, bewitching; (of a woman) gorgeous, coquettish

(n./v.) disaster, misfortune; do harm to

(char.) serve, attend upon

(radical./char.) second, rank second; second of the ten heavenly stems; used for an unspecified person or thing

(char.) hinder, obstruct, hamper

(v.) covet, crave; embezzle, be corrupt | (v.) have an insatiable desire (for sth)

(v.) to earn, to make; to struggle to get free | (char.) to struggle (only used in 挣扎)

(v./adj.) accumulate (of liquid); (lit.) deep and vast (water) | (n./m.) pond, pool; (for liquid) pool | (onomat.) (of dogs) bark, bowwow

(n./v.) urine; to urinate | (n.) (oral) wee, urine (seldom used today)

Only in compound words

(v./adj.) hang; have no solution, be unsettled; lift, raise; (spoken) dangerous | (char.) far apart; to make public; to feel anxious; to imagine

(n.) lip, labium