Most Common Chinese Characters (page 50)

(v.) pick up, collect; tidy up, put in order | (num.) ten (used on cheques and documents) | (char.) (lit.) to ascend in light steps

(n.) nest, den; (of evil-doers) lair, hideout; place sb is in; thing resembling a nest; sunken place | (char./m.) conceal, harbor, shelter; litter, brood | (v.) bend; stay (at home); suppress; lay idle the labor and material resources

(v.) open (the eyes)

(char.) carry, take along; take somebody by the hand

(char.) hill, mound; mausoleum; (lit.) bully, violate

(v.) to hum; to groan; to snort | (interj.) humph (used to express dissatisfaction, disbelief or threat)

(n.) cotton; things like cotton-wool

(adj.) sunny, without clouds

(n.) bell; bell-shaped object

(v.) fill in (a form); make up (a deficiency); stuff, fill

(char.) raise, breed (an animal); fodder

(adj./adv.) thirsty; yearningly, eagerly

(v./n.) to kiss; muzzle, snout; KISS (American band) | (char.) lip

(v.) to act as, to play (the part of), to disguise oneself as; to put on (a facial expression)

(adj./v.) contrary, inverse; go against, oppose | (char.) adverse, unfavorable; betray, rebel; beforehand; (lit.) meet, welcome

(adj.) hard and breakable, brittle; weak, delicate; crisp; clear

(v.) breathe heavily, pant, gasp for air

(n./v.) cover, shade, hood; overalls, work coat; bamboo fish trap; bamboo chicken coop; to cover, to overspread

(v.) divine, tell fortune; to predict, to foretell; (lit.) to choose | (radical.) divination | (char.) radish, turnip

(n.) furnace, oven

(n.) firewood | (adj.) (dialect) bony, skinny; (of food) tough, dry; poor, shoddy

(char.) pleased, happy

(n.) rope, string | (char.) carpenter's line marker; criterion, law; restrict, restrain; (lit.) continue

(n.) tyre; fetus; source; roughcast (of clayware); padding; birth; womb carrying fetus

(v.) save up, store; (of beard or hair) grow; to entertain (an idea)

(v.) sleep; (of some animals) hibernate

(char.) use up; dried up

(v.) feed (sb); give food to (animals) | (interj.) Hello!

(adj.) muddle-headed, stupid; having a one-track mind, inflexible

(char.) admire, envy; pine for, hanker after

(adj.) whole, all over; muddy; simple, unsophisticated; foolish, stupid

(char.) wicked, bad; disloyal to one's country; wily; traitor; crafty person

(char.) fan; leaf, board | (v.) to fan; to flap | (m.) a measure word for doors, windows, etc.

(char.) cabinet; cashbox (of a shop) | (char.) (name of a type of tree) purpleblow maple

(char.) happy, pleased; to delight, to please

(v.) to hinder, to bar, to block; be directed right at

(n./adj.) birth; birthday; beyond beliefs, preposterous, absurd

(adj./v.) full, well-fed; to satisfy | (char.) to embezzle; completely, fully

old variant of 乾[qian2]

(v.) to steep, to soak, to brew; (of a man) to court, to flirt with, to pick up (a woman) | (adj.) (dialect) spongy | (v.) to kill (the time), to loaf about | (n.) bubble; bubble-shaped thing | (char./m.) something soft and puffy; (dialect) small lake; measure word for the number of excretions (slightly vulgar)