YCT 4 — Word List and Characters

(n.) dad, father

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

(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

(n.) son

(v./n.) work; work, job

(n.) name; denomination

(n.) daughter

(phr.) a bit, a little

(pro.) (used before a noun; used alone as a subject or object of a sentence) this; now, this moment | (pro.) this, these (variant pronunciation of 这 zhe4)

(v.) live, reside, stay; stop, cease; (after a verb as a complement indicating) a halt or a steadiness; (after a verb as a complement, preceded by "de" or "bu", indicating) being able or unable to reach or meet a standard

(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.)

(v.) assist, help

(n.) newspaper

(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

(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.)

(prep.) from (a time, a place, or a point of view) | (char.) to follow; to comply; take part in; to adopt; subordinate; secondary | (prep./adv.) through (a place); according to; never (used before negative words)

(adj.) wrong; bad | (v./n.) to miss; to stagger; fault, mistake | (char.) be interlocked and jagged; complex, confusing

(pro.) all of us; everybody | (n.) great master or expert; wealthy and influential family of long standing

(v.) wait | (n./m.) grade, rank; kind, type | (char.) equal in number or degree | (conj.) until, when | (aux.) and so on, and so forth, etc.; indicating the end of an enumeration

(adv.) extremely, very | (adj.) exceptional, unusual, special

(n.) attendant, waiter, waitress

(v.) tell, let know | (v.) to accuse, to sue, to take legal action (against...)

(adj.) expensive, valuable | (n.) Gui (the abbreviation of Guizhou Province) | (v.) the value lies in | (adj.) (polite expression) your | (char.) (of people) noble, powerful, honored; highly valued

(n.) child, children

(v.) to introduce; to recommend or suggest; to brief

(v./n.) start, begin; beginning

(v./n.) participate in an exam; examination

(v./adj./n.) possibly may be (accomplished), probably can (be done); possible; possibility

(prep./v.) away from; leave, depart; be apart from; be without, be independent of

(v.) to travel, to make a tour

(adj./n./v.) cheap; unmerited advantage; to let somebody off lightly | (adj.) convenient, expedient

(adj.) sunny, without clouds

(sep-v.) go to work

(n.) watch

(pro.) why

(v./n.) to wish, to hope; hope, wish, possibility

(n.) mutton, lamb

(adv.) already

(n./adv.) the same group, place, etc.; together, in company; (dialect) altogether, in all

(v./n.) wear (clothes); come into contact with; apply, use; assign, dispatch; order; whereabouts | (n./v.) trick, move; move in chess; (dialect) to put in, to add | (par.) (after a verb to indicate an action is in a progress or in a certain state that continues) | (v.) attach, come in contact with; be affected (by...); catch fire; fall asleep | (aux.) used after a verb as a complement to indicate the result of the action