YCT 2 — Words and Characters for Kids

(n.) Beijing (the capital city of China)

(phr.) you're welcome

(n.) tea

(phr.) make a call

(n.) television

(phr.) sorry, excuse me; to be unworthy of..., to let ... down

(pro.) how many, how much | (n./adv.) number; kind of, more or less

(n.) minute

(n.) Chinese language (also called 华语, 中文)

(av.) can, know how to; understand, be good at; be likely to, be sure to | (n.) meeting, conference | (char.) meet, get together; (also: temple fair; union; chief city); opportunity | (char.) accounting, balance an account, compute

(m.) (esp. in spoken) measure word of basic Chinese monetary unit (same as "yuan"); basic monetary unit of other currencies (such as "dollars") | (n./m.) piece, cut, lump

(v./adj.) to come, to occur; to get or earn; future, coming, next | (v.) used as a substitute of another verb (bring, drink, sing ...); used to indicate the manner or attitude | (v.) (before verb) will do, shall do, come in order to do; (after verb) indicate purpose, result or estimation, indicate the movement towards the speaker | (v.) (after 得 or 不) indicates capability of finishing a certain task | (char.) used as a syllable filler in ballads

(v.) understand, know clearly | (par.) used after a verb or an adj to indicate the completion of an action, or the end of a sentence for a change of situation | (v.) (used in conjunction with de5 or bu4, after a verb) can | (v./adv.) to end, to conclude; (lit.) (not...) at all

(adj./v.) cold; cold (in one's manner); (dialect) to let (foods) cool down | (char.) unfrequented, deserted; rare, unusual; unpopular

(v.) buy

(phr.) Never mind; It doesn't matter; not related, not have any relation

(adv.) did not, have not (done...) | (v.) not have, have not (done)

(n.) name; denomination

(par.) (used at the end of a declarative sentence) indicating the continuation of an action or situation; marker of a declarative sentence | (char.) woolen (cloth), coating of wool (not used alone) | (par.) marker of a special, alternative or rhetorical question; used to mark a pause in a sentence

(n.) year; New Year | (char.) age; period of life; annual; period in history; things of or for the New Year

(n.) friend

(adj.) beautiful, good-looking, handsome; remarkable, brilliant

(n./m.) coins; coin-shaped thing; money; fortune fund; wealth; traditional unit of weight equivalent to 5g | (n.) Qian (a surname)

(v.) request; please; invite, ask, engage

(adj./v./n.) hot; popular; to heat up; heat; fever | (char.) ardent, warmhearted; craze, fad; envious; (of a scene) bustling; thermal

(sep-v.) sleep

(n.) weather; (dialect) time (of the day)

(n.) classmate, schoolmate

(n.) student

(v.) learn, study; follow the example of

(n.) doctor

(n.) hospital

(n.) chair

(pro.) how, why

(phr.) how is it, how about, what about

(n.) table, desk

(n.) yesterday

(v.) to sit; to travel by or on | (v.) convict; (of buildings) have the back towards; put on a fire; suffer from (a disease); (of guns) recoil

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

(prep.) than | (v.) to compare; to compete; to copy, to model after | (prep.) to (in a score) | (radical.) compare | (v.) to stand close together, be right next to; to collude with | (v.) to gesticulate; to rival, to parallel; to draw an analogy | (n.) ratio, rate, proportion