YCT 3 — Word List and Characters

(num.) eight, 8 | (radical.) eight

(n.) glass, cup

(n./adj./adv.) root, basis; capital, cost; note book; original, one's own, this; originally, to begin with | (m.) measure word for books | (char.) edition, version; script; (ancient China) memorial (passed to the emperor) | (prep.) according to, based on | (char.) inherent, intrinsic; principle, major

(phr.) you're welcome

(n.) dish, vegetable

(n.) computer

(n.) film, movie

(n.) thing, object | (n.) from east to west, east-west

(adv.) all, both, without exception | (n.) capital, metropolis; city noted for a certain product | (adv.) indicating the cause (used before 是); even; already

(v./n.) to read aloud; to read; way of pronunciation (of a character) | (v.) to study, to attend school | (char.) (ancient) short pause (when reading a text)

(n.) plane, air plane

(v.) to return, to go back, to turn around | (v./m.) to reply, answer back; (of the number of occurrence) time; (an event) piece; (of a novel) chapter | (char.) circle, wind

(v.) open; switch on; be on; drive; have (a meeting); write out; to prescribe | (m.) carat, karat (measurement of purity of gold) | (v.) open up, reclaim; (of flowers) open out; come loose; run, set up; lift (a ban, restriction) | (v.) to pay (wages); to fire (sb.); (of water) to be boiled; to divide into | (v.) used after a verb to indicate separation or departure, the beginning of an action, spreading, capacity, resignation or popularity

(av.) can, be able to | (n./adj.) ability, skill; energy; able, capable

(v./adj./adv.) to lack; to owe; to lose; few, little; for a short while | (char.) young; young master

(n.) (duration of) time; (a point in) time, moment

(n.) fruit

(char./m.) year; year for crops; time; year (of age)

(adv.) (used to express admiration, exclamation, or dissatisfaction) too, over; (after "bu" to soften the tone of negation) quite, excessively; (before "bu" to emphasize negation) too, over | (char.) highest, greatest; great-grand, senior; remotest

(v.) listen, hear; obey; allow; hear (a case), administer (state affairs) | (n.) tin, can

(v.) feed (sb); give food to (animals) | (interj.) Hello!

(adj.) next | (n.) below | (v.) (of rain, snow) to fall; go down, descend; finish or get off (work, etc.) | (v.) play (chess) | (v.) put sth. into; apply; form (opinion) | (m.) (to indicate repetition of an action); (to indicate one's ability or skill); (dialect, to indicate amount of sth in a container) | (v.) (used in the negative) be less than | (v.) (from a higher position) to go or come down to... | (v.) to issue or send (notice, order, etc.); to leave (stage, expressway, etc.); (of animal) give birth to, lay (eggs) | (char.) to capture; to yield

(n.) Mr., sir; husband; teacher; (dialect) medical doctor; (old) fortune-teller, storyteller

(v.) think, meditate, contemplate; miss, long for; would like to; estimate, presume; recall

(n.) Miss (title of an unmarried young woman, used after the surname or alone); Miss (female winner of a beauty contest); Miss (after a profession); (derog.) call girl; (ancient China) young lady (used by a servant addressing the master's daughter)

(m.) (before nouns) some, a few; (after adjectives or verbs) a bit, somewhat

(v.) write; paint; compose (musical or literary work); describe, depict

(n.) clothes

(n.) noon

(par.) (at the end of an imperative sentence) adding a softened tone | (v./n.) puff (at a pipe); bar (to drink) | (onomat.) bang, crack (sound of firing gunshot or something breaking) | (par.) (at the end of a declarative sentence) indicating uncertainty; (at the end of a question) indicating uncertainty with an estimate

(adj.) white, white color; bright | (adv.) in vain; free of charge, without effort | (n.) Bai (a surname) | (radical.) white | (adj.) (of Chinese characters) misspelt, mispronounced | (char.) clear, plain; spoken part (in an opera); vernacular (of classical Chinese); to explain, to state | (v./n.) to stare coldly or contemptuously; white part (of plant, eye, egg, etc.)

(num.) hundred; (used to imply) many, a lot

(v.) assist, help

(adv.) don't; (used with "shi" to raise a supposition of sth undesirable happening) | (v./pro.) to leave, to distinguish; other | (v./adj.) (dialect) dissuade from, win over; (of writting) awkward; not getting along well; unpleasant | (char.) difference; classification, category | (v.) (dialect) (of direction) to turn; (of idea or temper) to change | (char.) unique, uncommon, special; miswritten, misspelled, mispronounced | (v.) to fasten (using a pin); to clip into; to trip, to stumble (sb.)

(v.) sing a song, go to the karaoke bar

(v.) go out, to exceed, give out, to produce, to occur, to happen, to publish, put forth | (char.) to appear, be present; to expend, to pay | (v.) (used after a verb indicating) going out, appearing, finishing | (m.) (measure word for plays or chapters of classical novels, or pieces in a drama)

(v.) wear, put on | (v.) to penetrate, to pass through, to string

(m.) times (of repeating something) | (n./adj.) order, sequence; secondary, second-rate, inferior, poor | (m.) measure word for train numbers or flight numbers

(v.) play basketball

(par.) used after a verb to describe the action | (av.) need, must, have to; will certainly | (v.) result in (of calculation); (to end a conversation indicating agree or disagree) okay, stop (it); (expressing frustration) damn it | (v.) obtain, get; to suit; be satisfied; (oral) be finished; (before verbs in negatives) expressing permission or possibility