Most Common Chinese Characters (page 7)

(v.) to measure; to estimate, to evaluate | (n./v.) measure; capacity, quantity; estimate

(adv.) again, once more; (before adjectives) more | (v.) (lit.) recur, continue | (adv.) in addition; (indicating an action happens after a period of time or another action) then, only then; (in conditional or suppositional clauses) if ... continues, even if ... continues

(v.) to feel | (char.) sense, feeling; move, touch, affect; to be grateful, to thank; to sensitize; (TCM) to be affected by or contract wind-cold,

(v.) set up, build, construct, found | (char.) propose, advocate

(adv.) must, be sure to | (char.) business, matter; be engaged in

(v.) do, engage in; make, manufacture; write, compose | (v.) hold, celebrate; act as; become related; use as, be used as; pretend

(v.) receive; answer (the phone) | (v.) to connect; to come into contact with, come close to | (v.) to pick up, to meet, to welcome; to catch, to get hold of

(adv.) certainly; must, have to

(m.) a, an ... (followed by a sports game, film, performance, spell of rain, etc) | (char.) site, field, ground | (n./m.) level open site, threshing ground; spell, period, process (of...)

(m.) a measure word for clothes, events, etc. | (char.) document, letter; item

(v./n.) to count; to plan; idea, plan | (char.) meter, gauge; fuzz about, haggle over (used in the negative)

(v.) manage, control, administer | (n./m.) pipe, tube; tube-shaped device; measure word for pipe-like things | (char.) musical instrument | (v./conj./prep.) be responsible for, to discipline, to interfere, to guarantee or provide; no matter; from

(char.) period (of time); scheduled time; make an appointment; expect, anticipate | (m.) measure word for for things scheduled by periods | (char.) (lit.) a whole year or month

(n.) city; municipality; market | (char.) (lit.) to buy or sell; pertaining to the traditional Chinese system of weights and measures

(v./adj./adv.) to straighten; straight; vertical; upright; frank; directly; continuously; simply, just

(n.) morality, virtue; heart; kindness | (char.) (used in translation) Germany, German

(char.) money, goods, resource; natural ability; qualification; material, data; to support, aid or provide

(n.) fate, destiny; life; life expectancy | (v./n.) to assign (a name, a title, etc.); to order, to command; instruction, order

(n.) mountain, hill; mountainous area; anything resembling a mountain; gable (of a house) | (radical.) mountain

(char.) gold; golden; money; metal percussion instruments; precious, excellent | (n.) Jin (a family name); Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) | (n.) (TCM) metal | (radical.) metal

(n./v.) finger; to point to/at; to point out; to refer to; to depend on | (char./m.) (of one's hair) to stand on end; finger-breadth, digit

(m.) gram | (char.) conquer, defeat; (lit.) be able to; overcome, restrain; digest; harm; decrease, diminish; set a time limit

(v./adv.) maybe, about; to allow, permit; promise; (of a girl) be betrothed (to) | (n.) Xu (a surname) | (char.) (lit.) place; to praise; (indicating degree) so; (lit.) approximately

(char.) interconnected system; tube-shaped part of an article (variant of 筒) | (v./adv.) unite, unify; administer, control; altogether, entirely

(n.) district (administrative division); region, zone, area | (n.) Ou (Chinese family name) | (char.) discriminate, classify, subdivide

(v.) to maintain, to keep, to protect, to guarantee | (v.) to protect; to maintain; to guarantee; to be the guarantor for, to bail | (char.) guarantor

(v./adj./adv.) arrive, reach; go as far as to; best, perfect; extremely | (radical.) arrive

(n.) team | (n./m.) line; measure word for lines of people or animals

(char.) shape; entity; to express; to compare, to contrast

(n.) society, association; service, agency; god of land

(char.) convenient, appropriate; informal, casual; soon afterwards, then; excretion | (char.) advantageous; (lit.) bulging

(adj./adv.) empty, hollow; lacking substance, impractical; for nothing, in vain | (v./n./adj.) to empty, to clear out; empty space; free time; unfilled, unoccupied | (char.) sky, air

(v./adv.) decide; determine; make a breach; to execute (a person); definitely (not...)

(v.) rule, cure, control; treat (a disease); wipe out (harmful insects) | (char.) socially stable; to study, to research; to punish

(char.) spread out; expand; postpone; put to good use; exhibit; exhibition

(n.) horse | (radical.) horse | (char.) big, large

(n.) subject of instruction, branch of academic study, academic department; (biology) family | (n.) division, section, department (of an admin unit) | (char.) imperial civil exam or its subjects; article, clause (in laws and regulations); to impose a punishment; words said as part of a classical Chinese opera

(v./n.) manage, take charge of; department (under a ministry)

(num.) five, 5

(char.) base; basic, fundamental