Most Common Chinese Characters (page 56)

(n.) umbrella; umbrella-shaped thing

(n.) a stone tablet, stele

(v.) to move, to shift; to shift (a date); to misappropriate

abbr. for Hainan Province 海南[Hai3 nan2]

(char.) grease, fat; rouge

(n./adj.) to lie; false

(char.) generous; indignant; to sigh with emotion

(char.) (part of the transliteration of) Bodhisattva, Bodhi

used in 葡萄[pu2 tao5]

(n.) lion

(v.) dig, excavate

(v.) to transcribe; to copy; to raid; to take a shortcut; to fold (one's arms)

(n.) mountain range; mountain, ridge

(v./n.) to feel dizzy; halo around some light or color; halo (of sun or moon) | (adj./v.) confused, dizzy; to faint

(v.) catch, capture | (char.) catch, capture (having the same meaning as the third-tone 逮; only used in 逮捕)

(v.) cut, chop, hack; (dialect) to throw sth. at... | (v.) to cut down, to cut off, to bargain

(v.) take out, fish out, draw out, pull out; dig a hole, hollow out

surname Di | generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)

(char.) clear, distinct

(char.) rare, scarce

(v.) hold (sb's arm); roll up; to coil up (one's hair into a bun, variant of 绾) | (char.) lament (one's death); reverse, retrieve; pull, draw (a cart)

(n.) spleen

(n.) (lit) boat | (radical.) boat

(adj.) foolish, stupid; obsessed, infatuated | (char.) person who's infatuated with or crazy about sth.

surname Cai

(v.) to trim or cut (with scissors) | (char.) scissors, clippers; instrument shaped like scissors; to cut off, wipe out

(n.) spine; ridge | (n.) (TCM) vertebrae

(n./v.) bow, bow-shaped object; to arch, to bow | (radical.) bow

(adj.) lazy, indolent; listless, sluggish

(n./v.) fork, prong; cross; to work with a fork | (v.) to diverge, to part so as to form a fork | (char.) the splits (acrobatic position)

(v./n.) turn; walking stick | (v.) to kidnap, to abduct; to swindle, to cheat | (v.) limp, be crippled

mumble in repetition

(char.) associate in office; official

(v./n.) contribute, donate; relinquish, abandon; contribution, levy

old variant of 姊[zi3]

(char.) disturb; (abbr.) Li Sao (long poem written in the 4th century BC); poetry (in general); male (domestic animals) | (adj.) coquettish

(v.) develop, open up | (v.) making rubbings from inscriptions, on stone tablets or bronze vessels

(adj./v.) askew, slanting; improper, underhand; (dialect) to recline

(v.) to stick to, to stick together; to glue, to adhere to | (adj.) sticky, glutinous (same as 黏)

(n.) handle, hilt; target; stem, stalk (of leaf, flower or fruit) | (m.) (dialect) for objects with handles | (n./v.) (lit.) power, authority; to control, to be in control