Most Common Chinese Characters (page 51)

(n./adj./adv.) thief; crafty, cunning; (dialect) extremely | (char.) evil doer, traitor; wicked, evil

(char.) pavilion; kiosk, booth; (lit.) well-balanced, even

(char.) sunset; evening, night | (radical.) evening

(n.) father, dad

(char.) remuneration, repay; to reward or requite | (char.) to propose a toast; to fulfill, to realize; to socialize with

(char.) scholar; Confucianism

(char.) marriage, marriage connections, relation by marriage

(n.) spawn, egg; (insect) fertilized egg; (dialect) testicle (of human beings)

(char.) atmosphere

(v.) (of fluid or gas) let out, discharge; leak, divulge; vent; lose (heart or confidence)

(m.) measure word for flags, pens or guns | (n.) perch, pole, shaft, rod | (n.) pole, staff, post, shaft (usu. standing vertically on the ground)

(v.) suffer from, to delay, drag out | (v./prep.) be close to, be next to; one by one, by turns

(char.) (Buddhist) monk

(n.) honey | (char.) sweet like honey; (fig.) honeyed, sweet; honey-like thing

Only in compound words

(char.) ape, orang-utan

used in 半身不遂[ban4 shen1 bu4 sui2] | Taiwan pr. [sui4]

(adj.) narrow

(char.) be like, resemble | (n.) Xiao (a surname)

(adj.) sweet; (of sleep) sound, fast; happy, pleasant

(n.) red clouds, morning or evening glow

(v.) refute, contradict, rebut | (char.) (lit.) parti-colored; variegated | (n./v.) barge; to transport by barge; (lit.) to extend or widen (a bank/dyke)

(char.) abundant; (lit.) to enrich

(char.) naughty; stubborn; stupid

surname Yu | Taiwan pr. [Yu2]

(v.) pick, pluck; select, make extracts from; scold, reprimand; (oral) borrow money (in urgent need)

(adj.) low, short (in stature)

(m.) second (1/60 of a minute)

high ranking official (old) | term of endearment between spouses (old) | (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) | honorific (old)

(char.) livestock, domestic animal | (char.) raise domestic animals

(n.) pharynx | (v.) to swallow | (char.) to choke with sobs

(v.) drape, wrap around; wear, put on; open, unroll; split or crack (open); hang down loosely

(v.) assist, supplement

(v.) to tick off, to check; to sketch, to draw (an outline); to mix and thicken; to fill in (with mortar or cement); to evoke, to seduce; to collude with | (char.) (affair, character is never used alone)

(n./m.) basin, tub, pot; basin-shaped thing; measure word for things held in a basin, tub, or pot

(char.) border, boundary | (char.) Jiang (another name for Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 新疆)

(v.) gamble, bet

(v./n.) model, mould (a figure); plastic (not used alone)

(v.) fear, dread; admire, respect

(v./adj.) quarrel; noisy; to disturb, to bother