Most Common Chinese Characters (page 91)

lamb

(literary) to wait for

wash (color)

(bound form) olive

(bound form) cocoon | (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])

Japanese cicada | old variant of 霓[ni2]

used in 鸚鵡|鹦鹉[ying1 wu3]

surname Xu

see 琵琶, pipa lute

(v.) pry, lift

mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) | tangerine

to nip | to grasp with the fingers | to fiddle with | Taiwan pr. [nian2]

an article made of bamboo strips | fence

to recover (from illness)

(literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly

the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2]

macaque | to spy | to lie in ambush

jade-like stone

(v.) dig, excavate; (oral) deduct | (n./v.) planer, planing machine; to plane away

skin cast off during molting | exuvia | to pupate | to molt | to slough | to cast off an old skin or shell

proverb

Only in compound words

to cast a glance

(char.) steamed bread

variant of 拗[ao4]

Only in compound words

hairpin

(onom.) giggling | breathing | tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc

old variant of 喋[die2]

xiao, a vertical bamboo flute

(adj.) cunning, wicked; (dialect) picky, choosy (when it comes to foods)

(onom.) the thumping of one's heart

to wind round | to sew with slanting stitches

variant of 迥[jiong3]

(literary) shore; coast; bank

firm | stable | rock

short name for Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4] | old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江[Jia1 ling2 Jiang1] in Sichuan

(char.) redundant, superfluous; full of trivial details; busy routine

surname Min

phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds) | Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha | (dialect) final particle similar to 了[le5] (esp. in Yunnan)