Most Common Chinese Characters (page 68)

(char.) (of trees) fork; bifurcation; (dialect) girl

surname Ji | family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhou1 dai4] (1046–256 BC)

(literary) to admonish | (bound form) imperial edict

Only in compound words

(char.) coffin

(adj.) loyal, honest and just; (lit.) bright

(char.) to form, to set; to forge; to found

(char.) lax, slack

(v.) be jealous of, envy

(n.) kitchen range, kitchen stove; kitchen; kitchen god

(adj./v.) even; to even up, to divide evenly; to spare

succession (to a title) | to inherit | continuing (a tradition) | posterity

(char.) pigeon, dove

(char.) bathe

(v.) to chisel, to cut a hole, to gouge; to dig | (char.) (lit.) certain, authentic; (lit.) mortise, hole; chisel

(char.) (geography) latitude; (textile) weft, woof; (abbr.) augury book (of the Han Dynasty)

(v.) boil

(n.) type, category; (lit.) field

edge of blade

(char.) to stop, check, hold back

(adj.) bright, shinning

(v.) to smell, to sniff

denote a sound or sharp noise (gunfire etc)

(v.) stew, simmer (on a slow fire); extract by long heating; endure | (v.) to stew in water

to shoot a glance | glance | to appear in a flash

bones of the body

(adj.) luxurious (not used alone); excessive, inordinate

(adj.) awkward, clumsy, dull, inelegant; (polite) my

(char./m.) (lit.) ridgepole; house; measure word of buildings

(char.) blanket

tree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)

sand | gravel | granule | variant of 沙[sha1]

(char.) thick grass; (of grass) rank, thick; big, vast; rash, reckless

(v.) have diarrhea; pour down, flow swiftly

(n./m.) level ground, terrace; plain (usu. in place names); Ping, (unit in Taiwan, 1 Ping is around 3.3 square meters)

(v./n.) comb one's hair; comb

China fir | Cunninghamia lanceolata | also pr. [sha1]

(char.) (lit.) meet; see

(adj.) young and small, immature

(char.) vegetable