1547 of 1547 words shown
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 哎 | āi | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) |
| 唉 | āi | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh |
| 爱护 | ài hù | to cherish; to treasure; to take care of; to love and protect |
| 哎呀 | āi yā | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration |
| 安 | ān | (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安于); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 培) |
| 暗 | àn | dark; to turn dark; secret; hidden; (literary) confused; ignorant |
| 安慰 | ān wèi | to comfort; to console |
| 安装 | ān zhuāng | to install; to erect; to fix; to mount; installation |
| 熬夜 | áo yè | to stay up late or all night |
| 把握 | bǎ wò | to grasp (also fig.); to seize; to hold; assurance; certainty; sure (of the outcome) |
| 白 | bái | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera |
| 半夜 | bàn yè | midnight; in the middle of the night |
| 傍晚 | bàng wǎn | in the evening; when night falls; towards evening; at night fall; at dusk |
| 宝 | bǎo | jewel; gem; treasure; precious |
| 保 | Bǎo | Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亚 |
| 保安 | bǎo ān | to ensure public security; to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production); public security; security guard |
| 宝贝 | bǎo bèi | treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character |
| 保持 | bǎo chí | to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve |
| 保存 | bǎo cún | to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to save (a file etc) (computing) |
| 报到 | bào dào | to report for duty; to check in; to register |
| 报道 | bào dào | to report (news); report |
| 报告 | bào gào | to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture |
| 宝贵 | bǎo guì | valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by |
| 包裹 | bāo guǒ | to wrap up; to bind up; bundle; parcel; package |
| 包含 | bāo hán | to contain; to embody; to include |
| 报警 | bào jǐng | to sound an alarm; to report sth to the police |
| 包括 | bāo kuò | to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of |
| 保留 | bǎo liú | to keep; to retain; to have reservations (about sth); to hold back (from saying sth); to put aside for later |
| 保险 | bǎo xiǎn | insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to |
| 暴雨 | bào yǔ | torrential rain; rainstorm |
| 抱怨 | bào yuàn | to complain; to grumble; to harbor a complaint; to feel dissatisfied |
| 保质期 | bǎo zhì qī | shelf life; expiration date |
| 包装 | bāo zhuāng | to pack; to package; to wrap; packaging |
| 背后 | bèi hòu | behind; at the back; in the rear; behind sb's back |
| 背景 | bèi jǐng | background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer |
| 被子 | bèi zi | quilt |
| 本地 | běn dì | local; this locality |
| 本领 | běn lǐng | skill; ability; capability |
| 本人 | běn rén | I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned |
| 本质 | běn zhì | essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality |
| 必 | bì | certainly; must; will; necessarily |
| 彼此 | bǐ cǐ | each other; one another |
| 比分 | bǐ fēn | score |
| 毕竟 | bì jìng | after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis |
| 比例 | bǐ lì | proportion; scale |
| 避免 | bì miǎn | to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from |
| 闭幕式 | bì mù shì | closing ceremony |
| 必然 | bì rán | inevitable; certain; necessity |
| 必需 | bì xū | to need; to require; essential; indispensable |
| 必要 | bì yào | necessary; essential; indispensable; required |
| 比喻 | bǐ yù | to compare; to liken to; metaphor; analogy; figure of speech; figuratively |
| 便 | biàn | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards |
| 变动 | biàn dòng | to change; to fluctuate; change; fluctuation |
| 便利 | biàn lì | convenient; easy; to facilitate |
| 便利店 | biàn lì diàn | convenience store |
| 表达 | biǎo dá | to express; to convey |
| 表面 | biǎo miàn | surface; face; outside; appearance |
| 表明 | biǎo míng | to make clear; to make known; to state clearly; to indicate; known |
| 表情 | biǎo qíng | (facial) expression; to express one's feelings |
| 标题 | biāo tí | title; heading; headline; caption; subject |
| 标志 | biāo zhì | sign; mark; symbol; logo; to symbolize; to indicate; to mark |
| 饼 | bǐng | round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry |
| 病房 | bìng fáng | ward (of a hospital); sickroom |
| 病情 | bìng qíng | state of an illness; patient's condition |
| 薄 | bó | meager; slight; weak; ungenerous or unkind; frivolous; to despise; to belittle; to look down on; to approach or near |
| 拨打 | bō dǎ | to call; to dial |
| 玻璃 | bō li | glass; (slang) male homosexual |
| 博物馆 | bó wù guǎn | museum |
| 补充 | bǔ chōng | to replenish; to supplement; to complement; additional; supplementary |
| 不得了 | bù dé liǎo | desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly |
| 不利 | bù lì | unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental |
| 不良 | bù liáng | bad; harmful; unhealthy |
| 不然 | bù rán | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? |
| 不幸 | bù xìng | misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately |
| 步行 | bù xíng | to go on foot; to walk |
| 不要紧 | bù yào jǐn | unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but |
| 不足 | bù zú | insufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enough; inadequate; not worth; cannot; should not |
| 采访 | cǎi fǎng | to interview; to gather news; to hunt for and collect; to cover |
| 裁判 | cái pàn | judgment; to referee; umpire; judge; referee |
| 采取 | cǎi qǔ | to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take |
| 彩色 | cǎi sè | color; multicolored |
| 采用 | cǎi yòng | to adopt; to employ; to use |
| 参考 | cān kǎo | consultation; reference; to consult; to refer |
| 餐饮 | cān yǐn | food and beverage; catering; repast |
| 参与 | cān yù | to participate (in sth) |
| 藏 | cáng | to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect |
| 操作 | cāo zuò | to work; to operate; to manipulate |
| 册 | cè | book; booklet; classifier for books |
| 测 | cè | to survey; to measure; to conjecture |
| 测试 | cè shì | to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area); a test; (computing) beta (version of software) |
| 曾 | céng | once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) |
| 曾经 | céng jīng | once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) |
| 插 | chā | to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose |
| 差别 | chā bié | difference; distinction; disparity |
| 差距 | chā jù | disparity; gap |
| 叉子 | chā zi | fork |
| 拆 | chāi | to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open |
| 产 | chǎn | to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property |
| 产量 | chǎn liàng | output |
| 产品 | chǎn pǐn | goods; merchandise; product |
| 产业 | chǎn yè | industry; estate; property; industrial |
| 长处 | cháng chù | good aspects; strong points |
| 长度 | cháng dù | length |
| 长久 | cháng jiǔ | (for a) long time |
| 长期 | cháng qī | long term; long time; long range (of a forecast) |
| 尝试 | cháng shì | to try; to attempt |
| 常识 | cháng shí | common sense; general knowledge |
| 场所 | chǎng suǒ | location; place |
| 长途 | cháng tú | long distance |
| 长远 | cháng yuǎn | long-term; long-range |
| 超 | chāo | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- |
| 朝 | cháo | imperial or royal court; government; dynasty; reign of a sovereign or emperor; court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor; to make a pilgrimage to; facing; towards |
| 吵 | chǎo | to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise |
| 炒 | chǎo | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) |
| 超出 | chāo chū | to exceed; to overstep; to go too far; to encroach |
| 超级 | chāo jí | super-; ultra-; hyper- |
| 超速 | chāo sù | to exceed the speed limit; to speed; high-speed |
| 彻底 | chè dǐ | thorough; thoroughly; complete |
| 车祸 | chē huò | traffic accident; car crash |
| 车库 | chē kù | garage |
| 车辆 | chē liàng | vehicle |
| 车厢 | chē xiāng | carriage |
| 车主 | chē zhǔ | vehicle owner |
| 沉 | chén | to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy |
| 沉默 | chén mò | taciturn; uncommunicative; silent |
| 称 | chēng | to weigh; to state; to name; name; appellation; to praise |
| 成本 | chéng běn | (manufacturing, production etc) costs |
| 承担 | chéng dān | to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc) |
| 程度 | chéng dù | degree; level; extent |
| 成分 | chéng fèn | composition; ingredient; element; component; one's social status |
| 成果 | chéng guǒ | result; achievement; gain; profit |
| 成就 | chéng jiù | accomplishment; success; achievement; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about |
| 成立 | chéng lì | to establish; to set up; to be tenable; to hold water |
| 成年 | chéng nián | to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year |
| 城区 | chéng qū | city district; urban area |
| 成人 | chéng rén | adult |
| 承认 | chéng rèn | to admit; to concede; to recognize; recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc); to acknowledge |
| 承受 | chéng shòu | to bear; to support; to inherit |
| 成熟 | chéng shú | mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [chéng shóu] |
| 称为 | chēng wéi | to be called; to be known as; to call it "..." |
| 乘务员 | chéng wù yuán | attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc |
| 程序 | chéng xù | procedures; sequence; order; computer program |
| 成员 | chéng yuán | member |
| 称赞 | chēng zàn | to praise; to acclaim; to commend; to compliment |
| 成长 | chéng zhǎng | to mature; to grow; growth |
| 翅膀 | chì bǎng | wing |
| 持续 | chí xù | to continue; to persist; to last; sustainable; preservation |
| 尺子 | chǐ zi | ruler (measuring instrument) |
| 冲 | chōng | (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with |
| 充电 | chōng diàn | to recharge (a battery); (fig.) to recharge one's batteries (through leisure); to update one's skills and knowledge |
| 充分 | chōng fèn | ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full |
| 重复 | chóng fù | to repeat; to duplicate |
| 充满 | chōng mǎn | full of; brimming with; very full; permeated |
| 宠物 | chǒng wù | house pet |
| 虫子 | chóng zi | insect; bug; worm |
| 充足 | chōng zú | adequate; sufficient; abundant |
| 抽 | chōu | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash |
| 丑 | chǒu | clown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox; ancient Chinese compass point: 30° |
| 臭 | chòu | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) |
| 初 | chū | at first; (at the) beginning; first; junior; basic |
| 处 | chǔ | to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish |
| 出版 | chū bǎn | to publish |
| 初级 | chū jí | junior; primary |
| 处理 | chǔ lǐ | to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices |
| 初期 | chū qī | initial stage; beginning period |
| 出色 | chū sè | remarkable; outstanding |
| 出售 | chū shòu | to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market |
| 出席 | chū xí | to attend; to participate; present |
| 除夕 | Chú xī | lunar New Year's Eve |
| 处于 | chǔ yú | to be in (some state, position, or condition) |
| 出自 | chū zì | to come from |
| 传 | chuán | to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) |
| 传播 | chuán bō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 传递 | chuán dì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 传说 | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 传统 | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional; convention; conventional |
| 床单 | chuáng dān | bed sheet |
| 窗台 | chuāng tái | window sill; window ledge |
| 创新 | chuàng xīn | to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation |
| 创业 | chuàng yè | to begin an undertaking; to start a major task; to initiate; to venture; venture; entrepreneurship |
| 创造 | chuàng zào | to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record) |
| 创作 | chuàng zuò | to create; to produce; to write; creative work; creation |
| 此后 | cǐ hòu | after this; afterwards; hereafter |
| 词汇 | cí huì | vocabulary; list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes); word |
| 刺激 | cì jī | to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant |
| 此前 | cǐ qián | before this; before then; previously |
| 此时 | cǐ shí | now; this moment |
| 辞职 | cí zhí | to resign |
| 从不 | cóng bù | never |
| 从而 | cóng ér | thus; thereby |
| 从前 | cóng qián | previously; formerly; once upon a time |
| 从事 | cóng shì | to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do |
| 促进 | cù jìn | to promote (an idea or cause); to advance; boost |
| 促使 | cù shǐ | to induce; to promote; to urge; to impel; to bring about; to provoke; to drive (sb to do sth); to catalyze; to actuate; to contribute to (some development) |
| 促销 | cù xiāo | to promote sales |
| 催 | cuī | to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite |
| 存放 | cún fàng | to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care |
| 存款 | cún kuǎn | to deposit money (in a bank etc); bank savings; bank deposit |
| 存在 | cún zài | to exist; to be; existence |
| 措施 | cuò shī | measure; step |
| 打扮 | dǎ ban | to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress |
| 打包 | dǎ bāo | to wrap; to pack; to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out; (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file) |
| 达成 | dá chéng | to reach (an agreement); to accomplish |
| 大胆 | dà dǎn | brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless |
| 打断 | dǎ duàn | to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone) |
| 大多 | dà duō | for the most part; many; most; the greater part; mostly |
| 大会 | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting; convention |
| 大力 | dà lì | energetically; vigorously |
| 大妈 | dà mā | father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) |
| 大米 | dà mǐ | (husked) rice |
| 大脑 | dà nǎo | brain; cerebrum |
| 大批 | dà pī | large quantities of |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 大厦 | dà shà | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) |
| 大事 | dà shì | major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way |
| 打听 | dǎ ting | to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around |
| 大象 | dà xiàng | elephant |
| 大型 | dà xíng | large; large-scale |
| 大爷 | dà ye | (coll.) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man |
| 大于 | dà yú | greater than; bigger than; more than |
| 大众 | dà zhòng | the masses; the great bulk of the population; popular (of music, science etc) |
| 代 | dài | to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon |
| 代表 | dài biǎo | representative; delegate; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of |
| 带动 | dài dòng | to spur; to provide impetus; to drive |
| 代替 | dài tì | to replace; to take the place of |
| 待遇 | dài yù | treatment; pay; salary; status; rank |
| 单 | dān | bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number |
| 淡 | dàn | insipid; diluted; weak; mild; light in color; tasteless; indifferent; (variant of 氮) nitrogen |
| 单独 | dān dú | alone; by oneself; on one's own |
| 担任 | dān rèn | to hold a governmental office or post; to assume office of; to take charge of; to serve as |
| 胆小 | dǎn xiǎo | cowardice; timid |
| 单一 | dān yī | single; only; sole |
| 单元 | dān yuán | unit (forming an entity); element; (in a residential building) entrance or staircase |
| 挡 | dǎng | to resist; to obstruct; to hinder; to keep off; to block (a blow); to get in the way of; cover; gear (e.g. in a car's transmission) |
| 当成 | dàng chéng | to consider as; to take to be |
| 当地 | dāng dì | local |
| 当年 | dāng nián | in those days; then; in those years; during that time |
| 当前 | dāng qián | the present time; to be faced with |
| 当中 | dāng zhōng | among; in the middle; in the center |
| 当作 | dàng zuò | to treat as; to regard as |
| 到达 | dào dá | to reach; to arrive |
| 道理 | dào li | reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification |
| 到期 | dào qī | to fall due (loan etc); to expire (visa etc); to mature (investment bond etc) |
| 导演 | dǎo yǎn | to direct; director (film etc) |
| 导致 | dǎo zhì | to lead to; to create; to cause; to bring about |
| 登 | dēng | to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) |
| 等待 | děng dài | to wait; to wait for |
| 灯光 | dēng guāng | (stage) lighting; light |
| 等候 | děng hòu | to wait; to wait for |
| 登记 | dēng jì | to register (one's name) |
| 登录 | dēng lù | to register; to log in |
| 等于 | děng yú | to equal; to be tantamount to |
| 递 | dì | to hand over; to pass on; to deliver; (bound form) progressively; in the proper order |
| 地理 | dì lǐ | geography |
| 地面 | dì miàn | floor; ground; surface |
| 地区 | dì qū | local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) |
| 的确 | dí què | really; indeed |
| 敌人 | dí rén | enemy |
| 低头 | dī tóu | to bow the head; to yield; to give in |
| 地位 | dì wèi | position; status; place |
| 地下 | dì xià | underground; subterranean; covert |
| 地震 | dì zhèn | earthquake |
| 电池 | diàn chí | battery |
| 电动 | diàn dòng | electric-powered; (Tw) video game |
| 电器 | diàn qì | (electrical) appliance; device |
| 电视台 | diàn shì tái | television station |
| 点心 | diǎn xin | light refreshments; pastry; dim sum (in Cantonese cooking); dessert |
| 电子版 | diàn zǐ bǎn | electronic edition; digital version |
| 调 | diào | to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody |
| 调研 | diào yán | to investigate and research; research; investigation |
| 定期 | dìng qī | at set dates; at regular intervals; periodic; limited to a fixed period of time; fixed term |
| 丢失 | diū shī | to lose; to misplace |
| 冻 | dòng | to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly |
| 洞 | dòng | cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) |
| 动画 | dòng huà | animation; cartoon |
| 动人 | dòng rén | touching; moving |
| 动手 | dòng shǒu | to set about (a task); to hit; to punch; to touch |
| 豆腐 | dòu fu | tofu; bean curd |
| 豆浆 | dòu jiāng | soy milk |
| 堵 | dǔ | to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls) |
| 度 | dù | to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences |
| 独立 | dú lì | independent; independence; to stand alone |
| 独特 | dú tè | unique; distinctive |
| 读音 | dú yīn | pronunciation; literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character |
| 独自 | dú zì | alone |
| 断 | duàn | to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly |
| 短处 | duǎn chù | shortcoming; defect; fault; one's weak points |
| 短期 | duǎn qī | short term; short-term |
| 堆 | duī | to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount |
| 对比 | duì bǐ | to contrast; contrast; ratio |
| 对待 | duì dài | to treat; treatment |
| 对手 | duì shǒu | opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match |
| 队伍 | duì wǔ | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession |
| 对象 | duì xiàng | target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend |
| 吨 | dūn | ton (loanword); Taiwan pr. [dùn] |
| 躲 | duǒ | to hide; to dodge; to avoid |
| 朵 | duǒ | flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc |
| 儿女 | ér nǚ | children; sons and daughters; a young man and a young woman (in love) |
| 二手 | èr shǒu | indirectly acquired; second-hand (information, equipment etc); assistant |
| 二维码 | èr wéi mǎ | two-dimensional barcode; QR code |
| 罚 | fá | to punish; to penalize |
| 发表 | fā biǎo | to issue; to publish |
| 发布 | fā bù | to release; to issue; to announce; to distribute; also written 发布 |
| 发达 | fā dá | well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper |
| 发挥 | fā huī | to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme) |
| 罚款 | fá kuǎn | to fine; penalty; fine (monetary) |
| 发明 | fā míng | to invent; an invention |
| 发起 | fā qǐ | to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time) |
| 发言 | fā yán | to make a speech; statement; utterance |
| 法院 | fǎ yuàn | court of law; court |
| 翻 | fān | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross |
| 反 | fǎn | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system |
| 反而 | fǎn ér | on the contrary; instead |
| 反复 | fǎn fù | repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return |
| 返回 | fǎn huí | to return to; to come (or go) back |
| 番茄 | fān qié | tomato |
| 繁荣 | fán róng | prosperous; booming (economy) |
| 范围 | fàn wéi | range; scope; limit; extent |
| 反应 | fǎn yìng | to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction |
| 反映 | fǎn yìng | to mirror; to reflect; mirror image; reflection; (fig.) to report; to make known; to render |
| 反正 | fǎn zhèng | anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side |
| 方 | fāng | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter |
| 防 | fáng | to protect; to defend; to guard against; to prevent |
| 方案 | fāng àn | plan; program (for action etc); proposal; proposed bill |
| 仿佛 | fǎng fú | to seem; as if; alike; similar |
| 访问 | fǎng wèn | to visit; to call on; to interview |
| 房屋 | fáng wū | house; building |
| 防止 | fáng zhǐ | to prevent; to guard against; to take precautions |
| 飞行 | fēi xíng | (of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight; aviation |
| 飞行员 | fēi xíng yuán | pilot; aviator |
| 分别 | fēn bié | to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually |
| 分布 | fēn bù | to scatter; to distribute; to be distributed (over an area etc); (statistical, geographic) distribution |
| 奋斗 | fèn dòu | to strive; to struggle |
| 纷纷 | fēn fēn | one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell |
| 分类 | fēn lèi | to classify |
| 分离 | fēn lí | to separate |
| 分配 | fēn pèi | to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive) |
| 分手 | fēn shǒu | to part company; to split up; to break up |
| 分析 | fēn xī | to analyze; analysis |
| 分享 | fēn xiǎng | to share (let others have some of sth good) |
| 丰富多彩 | fēng fù duō cǎi | richly colorful |
| 风格 | fēng gé | style |
| 疯狂 | fēng kuáng | crazy; frenzied; wild |
| 风俗 | fēng sú | social custom |
| 风险 | fēng xiǎn | risk; hazard |
| 否定 | fǒu dìng | to negate; to deny; to reject; negative (answer); negation |
| 否认 | fǒu rèn | to declare to be untrue; to deny |
| 扶 | fú | to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help |
| 福 | fú | good fortune; happiness; luck |
| 副 | fù | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions |
| 富 | fù | rich; abundant; wealthy |
| 付出 | fù chū | to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time) |
| 负担 | fù dān | to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden |
| 夫妇 | fū fù | a (married) couple; husband and wife |
| 妇女 | fù nǚ | woman |
| 富有 | fù yǒu | rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with |
| 复制 | fù zhì | to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy; to reproduce; to clone |
| 服装 | fú zhuāng | dress; clothing; costume; clothes |
| 盖 | gài | lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build |
| 改革 | gǎi gé | reform; to reform |
| 改进 | gǎi jìn | to improve; to make better; improvement |
| 概括 | gài kuò | to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline |
| 概念 | gài niàn | concept; idea |
| 改善 | gǎi shàn | to make better; to improve |
| 改正 | gǎi zhèng | to correct; to amend; to put right; correction |
| 敢于 | gǎn yú | to have the courage to do sth; to dare to; bold in |
| 刚好 | gāng hǎo | just; exactly; to happen to be |
| 搞 | gǎo | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of |
| 告别 | gào bié | to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to |
| 高大 | gāo dà | tall; lofty; towering |
| 高档 | gāo dàng | superior quality; high grade; top grade |
| 高度 | gāo dù | height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly |
| 高级 | gāo jí | high level; high grade; advanced; high-ranking |
| 高科技 | gāo kē jì | high tech; high technology |
| 高效 | gāo xiào | efficient; highly effective |
| 隔 | gé | to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of |
| 个别 | gè bié | individually; one by one; just one or two; exceptional; rare |
| 歌词 | gē cí | song lyric; lyrics |
| 歌曲 | gē qǔ | song |
| 个人 | gè rén | individual; personal; oneself |
| 格外 | gé wài | especially; particularly |
| 个性 | gè xìng | individuality; personality |
| 各自 | gè zì | each; respective; apiece |
| 根 | gēn | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) |
| 根本 | gēn běn | fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all |
| 更换 | gēng huàn | to replace (a worn-out tire etc); to change (one's address etc) |
| 更新 | gēng xīn | to replace the old with new; to renew; to renovate; to upgrade; to update; to regenerate |
| 公布 | gōng bù | to announce; to make public; to publish |
| 工程 | gōng chéng | engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking |
| 工程师 | gōng chéng shī | engineer |
| 工具 | gōng jù | tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc) |
| 功能 | gōng néng | function; capability |
| 公平 | gōng píng | fair; impartial |
| 公务员 | gōng wù yuán | functionary; office-bearer |
| 恭喜 | gōng xǐ | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! |
| 贡献 | gòng xiàn | to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution |
| 共享 | gòng xiǎng | to share; to enjoy together |
| 工业 | gōng yè | industry |
| 工艺 | gōng yì | arts and crafts; industrial arts |
| 公寓 | gōng yù | apartment building; block of flats |
| 构成 | gòu chéng | to constitute; to form; to compose; to make up; to configure (computing) |
| 沟通 | gōu tōng | to join; to connect; to link up; to communicate |
| 古 | gǔ | ancient; old; paleo- |
| 鼓 | gǔ | drum; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell |
| 古代 | gǔ dài | ancient times |
| 固定 | gù dìng | to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular |
| 古老 | gǔ lǎo | ancient; old; age-old |
| 故乡 | gù xiāng | home; homeland; native place |
| 鼓掌 | gǔ zhǎng | to applaud; to clap |
| 挂号 | guà hào | to register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail |
| 怪 | guài | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather |
| 关闭 | guān bì | to close; to shut (a window etc); (of a shop, school etc) to shut down |
| 观察 | guān chá | to observe; to watch; to survey |
| 观点 | guān diǎn | point of view; viewpoint; standpoint |
| 冠军 | guàn jūn | champion |
| 观念 | guān niàn | notion; thought; concept; sense; views; ideology; general impressions |
| 广 | guǎng | wide; numerous; to spread |
| 广场 | guǎng chǎng | public square; plaza |
| 广大 | guǎng dà | (of an area) vast or extensive; large-scale; widespread; (of people) numerous |
| 广泛 | guǎng fàn | extensive; wide range |
| 光临 | guāng lín | (formal) to honor with one's presence; to attend |
| 光明 | guāng míng | light; radiance; (fig.) bright (prospects etc); openhearted |
| 光线 | guāng xiàn | light ray; light; illumination; lighting (for a photograph) |
| 规律 | guī lǜ | rule (e.g. of science); law of behavior; regular pattern; rhythm; discipline |
| 规模 | guī mó | scale; scope; extent |
| 规则 | guī zé | rule; regulation; rules and regulations |
| 柜子 | guì zi | cupboard; cabinet |
| 滚 | gǔn | to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! |
| 锅 | guō | pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing |
| 过度 | guò dù | excessive; over-; excess; going too far; extravagant; intemperate; overdue |
| 过分 | guò fèn | excessive; undue; overly |
| 国画 | guó huà | traditional Chinese painting |
| 过敏 | guò mǐn | oversensitive; allergic; allergy |
| 过期 | guò qī | to be overdue; to exceed the time limit; to expire (as in expiration date) |
| 国庆 | Guó qìng | National Day |
| 果然 | guǒ rán | really; sure enough; as expected; if indeed |
| 果实 | guǒ shí | fruit (produced by a plant); (fig.) fruits (of success etc); results; gains |
| 过于 | guò yú | too much; excessively |
| 哈 | hā | (interj.) ha!; (onom. for laughter); (slang) to be infatuated with; to adore; abbr. for 奇, husky (dog) |
| 海关 | hǎi guān | customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) |
| 海外 | hǎi wài | overseas; abroad |
| 海鲜 | hǎi xiān | seafood |
| 含 | hán | to keep in the mouth; to contain |
| 含量 | hán liàng | content; quantity contained |
| 汗水 | hàn shuǐ | sweat; perspiration |
| 含有 | hán yǒu | to contain; including |
| 行业 | háng yè | trade; profession; industry; business |
| 好评 | hǎo píng | favorable criticism; positive evaluation |
| 好奇 | hào qí | inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity |
| 好运 | hǎo yùn | good luck |
| 好转 | hǎo zhuǎn | to improve; to take a turn for the better; improvement |
| 合 | hé | to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale; old variant of 盒 |
| 合法 | hé fǎ | lawful; legitimate; legal |
| 盒饭 | hé fàn | meal in a partitioned box |
| 合理 | hé lǐ | rational; reasonable; sensible; fair |
| 河流 | hé liú | river |
| 合同 | hé tong | (business) contract |
| 合影 | hé yǐng | to take a joint photo; group photo |
| 合作 | hé zuò | to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation |
| 黑 | hēi | black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing) |
| 红 | hóng | red; popular; revolutionary; bonus |
| 厚度 | hòu dù | thickness |
| 后果 | hòu guǒ | consequences; aftermath |
| 猴子 | hóu zi | monkey |
| 湖 | hú | lake |
| 蝴蝶 | hú dié | butterfly |
| 互动 | hù dòng | to interact; interactive |
| 忽视 | hū shì | to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore |
| 胡同 | hú tòng | lane; alley |
| 户外 | hù wài | outdoor |
| 呼吸 | hū xī | to breathe |
| 滑 | huá | to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted |
| 化 | huà | to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化学 |
| 划 | huà | to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character |
| 花费 | huā fèi | expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure |
| 话费 | huà fèi | call charge |
| 画面 | huà miàn | scene; tableau; picture; image; screen (displayed by a computer); (motion picture) frame; field of view |
| 话题 | huà tí | subject (of a talk or conversation); topic |
| 化学 | huà xué | chemistry; chemical |
| 环节 | huán jié | (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc |
| 缓解 | huǎn jiě | to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis); to dull (a pain) |
| 缓慢 | huǎn màn | slow |
| 黄瓜 | huáng guā | cucumber |
| 黄金 | huáng jīn | gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time) |
| 灰 | huī | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected |
| 挥 | huī | to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse |
| 恢复 | huī fù | to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate |
| 汇率 | huì lǜ | exchange rate |
| 灰色 | huī sè | gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous |
| 回收 | huí shōu | to recycle; to reclaim; to retrieve; to recover; to recall (a defective product) |
| 婚礼 | hūn lǐ | wedding ceremony; wedding |
| 伙 | huǒ | companion; partner; group; classifier for groups of people; to combine; together |
| 伙伴 | huǒ bàn | partner; companion; comrade |
| 火锅 | huǒ guō | hotpot |
| 或是 | huò shì | or; either one or the other |
| 货物 | huò wù | goods; commodity; merchandise |
| 或许 | huò xǔ | perhaps; maybe |
| 及 | jí | and; to reach; up to; in time for |
| 级 | jí | level; grade; rank; step (of stairs); classifier: step, level |
| 集 | jí | to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode |
| 挤 | jǐ | to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule) |
| 疾病 | jí bìng | disease; sickness; ailment |
| 季度 | jì dù | quarter of a year; season (sports) |
| 及格 | jí gé | to pass an exam or a test; to meet a minimum standard |
| 机构 | jī gòu | mechanism; structure; organization; agency; institution |
| 集合 | jí hé | to gather; to assemble; (math.) set |
| 即将 | jí jiāng | on the eve of; to be about to; to be on the verge of |
| 激烈 | jī liè | (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme |
| 记录 | jì lù | to record; record (written account); note-taker; record (in sports etc) |
| 纪录 | jì lù | variant of 记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record") |
| 纪录片 | jì lù piàn | newsreel; documentary (film or TV program) |
| 急忙 | jí máng | hastily |
| 技能 | jì néng | technical ability; skill |
| 纪念 | jì niàn | to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir |
| 纪念日 | jì niàn rì | day of commemoration; memorial day |
| 机器 | jī qì | machine |
| 极其 | jí qí | extremely |
| 机器人 | jī qì rén | robot; android |
| 肌肉 | jī ròu | muscle; flesh |
| 计算 | jì suàn | to count; to calculate; to compute |
| 计算机 | jì suàn jī | computer; (Tw) calculator |
| 集体 | jí tǐ | collective (decision); joint (effort); a group; a team; en masse; as a group |
| 急需 | jí xū | to urgently need; urgent need |
| 记忆 | jì yì | to remember; to recall; memory |
| 记载 | jì zǎi | to write down; to record; written account |
| 急诊 | jí zhěn | to give or receive urgent medical treatment; emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department, or from a doctor on a house call) |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together |
| 甲 | jiǎ | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 干; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 甲 system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75° |
| 架 | jià | to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc |
| 嘉宾 | jiā bīn | esteemed guest; honored guest; guest (on a show) |
| 家电 | jiā diàn | household electric appliance; abbr. for 家用电器 |
| 加工 | jiā gōng | to process; processing; working (of machinery) |
| 加热 | jiā rè | to heat |
| 假如 | jiǎ rú | if |
| 加深 | jiā shēn | to deepen |
| 驾驶 | jià shǐ | to pilot (ship, airplane etc); to drive |
| 加速 | jiā sù | to speed up; to expedite |
| 家务 | jiā wù | household duties; housework |
| 驾照 | jià zhào | driver's license |
| 价值 | jià zhí | value; worth; fig. values (ethical, cultural etc) |
| 捡 | jiǎn | to pick up; to collect; to gather |
| 剪 | jiǎn | scissors; shears; clippers; to cut with scissors; to trim; to wipe out or exterminate |
| 建 | jiàn | to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct |
| 键 | jiàn | key (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device); chemical bond; linchpin |
| 剪刀 | jiǎn dāo | scissors |
| 减肥 | jiǎn féi | to lose weight |
| 渐渐 | jiàn jiàn | gradually |
| 艰苦 | jiān kǔ | difficult; hard; arduous |
| 简历 | jiǎn lì | curriculum vitae (CV); résumé; biographical notes |
| 建立 | jiàn lì | to establish; to set up; to found |
| 键盘 | jiàn pán | keyboard |
| 坚强 | jiān qiáng | staunch; strong |
| 建设 | jiàn shè | to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute |
| 建造 | jiàn zào | to construct; to build |
| 简直 | jiǎn zhí | simply; really |
| 建筑 | jiàn zhù | to construct; building |
| 讲话 | jiǎng huà | a speech; to speak; to talk; to address |
| 将近 | jiāng jìn | almost; nearly; close to |
| 讲究 | jiǎng jiu | to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen |
| 奖励 | jiǎng lì | to reward; reward (as encouragement) |
| 讲述 | jiǎng shù | to talk about; to narrate; to give an account |
| 讲座 | jiǎng zuò | a course of lectures |
| 浇 | jiāo | to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold |
| 较 | jiào | to compare; to dispute; compared to; (before adj.) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiǎo] |
| 脚步 | jiǎo bù | footstep; step |
| 教材 | jiào cái | teaching material |
| 角度 | jiǎo dù | angle; point of view |
| 交换 | jiāo huàn | to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute |
| 交往 | jiāo wǎng | to associate (with); to have contact (with); to hang out (with); to date; (interpersonal) relationship; association; contact |
| 交易 | jiāo yì | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal |
| 结 | jié | knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel) |
| 届 | jiè | to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation) |
| 接触 | jiē chù | to touch; to contact; access; in touch with |
| 接待 | jiē dài | to receive (a visitor); to admit (allow sb to enter) |
| 阶段 | jiē duàn | stage; section; phase; period |
| 结构 | jié gòu | structure; composition; makeup; architecture |
| 结合 | jié hé | to combine; to link; to integrate; binding |
| 接近 | jiē jìn | to approach; to get close to |
| 结论 | jié lùn | conclusion; verdict; to conclude; to reach a verdict |
| 节省 | jié shěng | saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on |
| 接收 | jiē shōu | reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate |
| 紧 | jǐn | tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten |
| 进步 | jìn bù | progress; improvement; to improve; to progress |
| 近代 | jìn dài | the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949) |
| 紧急 | jǐn jí | urgent; emergency |
| 进口 | jìn kǒu | to import; imported; entrance; inlet (for the intake of air, water etc) |
| 尽快 | jǐn kuài | as quickly as possible; as soon as possible |
| 尽力 | jìn lì | to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort |
| 尽量 | jǐn liàng | as much as possible; to the greatest extent |
| 紧密 | jǐn mì | inseparably close |
| 近年来 | jìn nián lái | for the past few years |
| 近期 | jìn qī | near in time; in the near future; very soon; recent |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 近日 | jìn rì | (in) the past few days; recently; (within) the next few days |
| 谨慎 | jǐn shèn | cautious; prudent |
| 进一步 | jìn yī bù | to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further |
| 静 | jìng | still; calm; quiet; not moving |
| 经典 | jīng diǎn | the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical |
| 精力 | jīng lì | energy |
| 精神 | jīng shén | spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist |
| 惊喜 | jīng xǐ | nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised |
| 经营 | jīng yíng | to engage in (business etc); to run; to operate |
| 救 | jiù | to save; to assist; to rescue |
| 酒吧 | jiǔ bā | bar; pub; saloon |
| 救护车 | jiù hù chē | ambulance |
| 就业 | jiù yè | to get a job; employment |
| 据 | jù | according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy |
| 距 | jù | at a distance of; distance; to be apart |
| 具备 | jù bèi | to possess; to have; equipped with; able to fulfill (conditions or requirements) |
| 剧场 | jù chǎng | theater |
| 巨大 | jù dà | huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous |
| 居民 | jū mín | resident; inhabitant |
| 居然 | jū rán | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to |
| 据说 | jù shuō | it is said that; reportedly |
| 具体 | jù tǐ | concrete; definite; specific |
| 具有 | jù yǒu | to have; to possess |
| 居住 | jū zhù | to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in |
| 橘子 | jú zi | tangerine |
| 捐 | juān | to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy |
| 绝对 | jué duì | absolute; unconditional |
| 决赛 | jué sài | finals (of a competition) |
| 角色 | jué sè | role; character in a novel; persona; also pr. [jiǎo sè] |
| 决心 | jué xīn | determination; resolution; determined; firm and resolute; to make up one's mind |
| 开发 | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 开放 | kāi fàng | to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality |
| 开幕 | kāi mù | to open (a conference); to inaugurate |
| 开幕式 | kāi mù shì | opening ceremony |
| 开水 | kāi shuǐ | boiled water; boiling water |
| 开通 | kāi tōng | to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service) |
| 开业 | kāi yè | to open a business; to open a practice; open (for business) |
| 开展 | kāi zhǎn | to launch; to develop; to unfold; (of an exhibition etc) to open |
| 看望 | kàn wàng | to pay a visit to; to see (sb) |
| 看作 | kàn zuò | to look upon as; to regard as |
| 靠 | kào | to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old) |
| 靠近 | kào jìn | to be close to; to approach; to draw near |
| 颗 | kē | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc |
| 克服 | kè fú | (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure |
| 客观 | kè guān | objective; impartial |
| 客户 | kè hù | client; customer |
| 可见 | kě jiàn | it can clearly be seen (that this is the case); it is (thus) clear; clear; visible |
| 可靠 | kě kào | reliable |
| 可怕 | kě pà | awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly |
| 科研 | kē yán | (scientific) research |
| 空间 | kōng jiān | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 空中 | kōng zhōng | in the sky; in the air |
| 口袋 | kǒu dài | pocket; bag; sack |
| 口味 | kǒu wèi | a person's preferences; tastes (in food); flavor |
| 库 | kù | warehouse; storehouse; (file) library |
| 宽 | kuān | wide; broad; loose; relaxed; lenient |
| 宽度 | kuān dù | width |
| 亏 | kuī | deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that... |
| 昆虫 | kūn chóng | insect |
| 扩大 | kuò dà | to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope |
| 来源 | lái yuán | source (of information etc); origin |
| 老百姓 | lǎo bǎi xìng | ordinary people; the "person in the street" |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | boss; business proprietor |
| 劳动 | láo dòng | work; toil; physical labor |
| 老公 | lǎo gong | (coll.) eunuch; see also 公 |
| 姥姥 | lǎo lao | (coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 姥爷 | lǎo ye | maternal grandfather (dialectal) |
| 乐观 | lè guān | optimistic; hopeful |
| 乐趣 | lè qù | delight; pleasure; joy |
| 泪 | lèi | tears |
| 类 | lèi | kind; type; class; category; similar; like; to resemble |
| 泪水 | lèi shuǐ | teardrop; tears |
| 类似 | lèi sì | similar; analogous |
| 类型 | lèi xíng | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| 梨 | lí | pear |
| 力 | lì | power; force; strength; ability; strenuously |
| 离婚 | lí hūn | to divorce |
| 立即 | lì jí | immediately |
| 立刻 | lì kè | forthwith; immediate; prompt; promptly; straightway; thereupon; at once |
| 力量 | lì liang | power; force; strength |
| 理论 | lǐ lùn | theory; to argue; to take notice of |
| 厘米 | lí mǐ | centimeter |
| 利润 | lì rùn | profits |
| 里头 | lǐ tou | inside; interior |
| 利益 | lì yì | benefit; (in sb's) interest |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize |
| 理由 | lǐ yóu | reason; grounds; justification |
| 离职 | lí zhí | to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study); to leave one's job; to resign |
| 恋爱 | liàn ài | (romantic) love; in love; to have an affair |
| 联合 | lián hé | to combine; to join; unite; alliance |
| 连接 | lián jiē | to link; to join; to connect |
| 连忙 | lián máng | promptly; at once |
| 脸色 | liǎn sè | complexion; look |
| 连续 | lián xù | continuous; in a row; serial; consecutive |
| 良好 | liáng hǎo | good; favorable; well; fine |
| 粮食 | liáng shi | foodstuff; cereals |
| 了不起 | liǎo bu qǐ | amazing; terrific; extraordinary |
| 列车 | liè chē | (railway) train |
| 临时 | lín shí | as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc |
| 铃 | líng | (small) bell |
| 领 | lǐng | neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc |
| 令 | lìng | to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem |
| 领带 | lǐng dài | necktie |
| 领导 | lǐng dǎo | lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader |
| 灵活 | líng huó | flexible; nimble; agile |
| 领取 | lǐng qǔ | to receive; to draw; to get |
| 领先 | lǐng xiān | to lead; to be in front |
| 领域 | lǐng yù | domain; sphere; field; territory; area |
| 流传 | liú chuán | to spread; to circulate; to hand down |
| 流感 | liú gǎn | flu; influenza |
| 浏览 | liú lǎn | to skim over; to browse |
| 留言 | liú yán | to leave a message; to leave one's comments; message |
| 龙 | lóng | dragon; imperial |
| 漏 | lòu | to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old) |
| 录 | lù | diary; record; to hit; to copy |
| 陆地 | lù dì | dry land (as opposed to the sea) |
| 录取 | lù qǔ | to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam; to admit (a student); to hire (a job candidate) |
| 路人 | lù rén | passer-by; stranger |
| 路线 | lù xiàn | itinerary; route; political line (e.g. right revisionist road) |
| 旅行社 | lǚ xíng shè | travel agency |
| 陆续 | lù xù | in turn; successively; one after the other; bit by bit |
| 录音 | lù yīn | to record (sound); sound recording |
| 论文 | lùn wén | paper; treatise; thesis; to discuss a paper or thesis (old) |
| 逻辑 | luó ji | logic (loanword) |
| 骂 | mà | to scold; to abuse; to curse |
| 买卖 | mǎi mài | buying and selling; business; business transactions |
| 满足 | mǎn zú | to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content |
| 忙碌 | máng lù | busy; bustling |
| 毛笔 | máo bǐ | writing brush |
| 毛病 | máo bìng | fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment |
| 矛盾 | máo dùn | contradiction; conflicting views; contradictory |
| 玫瑰 | méi guī | rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower |
| 魅力 | mèi lì | charm; fascination; glamor; charisma |
| 美术 | měi shù | art; fine arts; painting |
| 媒体 | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
| 美味 | měi wèi | delicious; delicious food; delicacy |
| 没法儿 | méifǎr5 | Can't |
| 门诊 | mén zhěn | outpatient service |
| 迷 | mí | to bewilder; crazy about; fan; enthusiast; lost; confused |
| 迷路 | mí lù | to lose the way; lost; labyrinth; labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear) |
| 秘密 | mì mì | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret |
| 密切 | mì qiè | close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention |
| 秘书 | mì shū | secretary |
| 面积 | miàn jī | area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area; tract of land |
| 面临 | miàn lín | to face sth; to be confronted with |
| 面向 | miàn xiàng | to face; to turn towards; to incline to; geared towards; catering for; -oriented; facial feature; appearance; aspect; facet |
| 描述 | miáo shù | to describe; description |
| 敏感 | mǐn gǎn | sensitive; susceptible |
| 命 | mìng | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc |
| 名称 | míng chēng | name (of a thing); name (of an organization) |
| 名牌 | míng pái | famous brand; nameplate; name tag |
| 名片 | míng piàn | (business) card |
| 明确 | míng què | clear-cut; definite; explicit; to clarify; to specify; to make definite |
| 明显 | míng xiǎn | clear; distinct; obvious |
| 明星 | míng xīng | star; celebrity |
| 命运 | mìng yùn | fate; destiny |
| 摸 | mō | to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract |
| 模糊 | mó hu | vague; indistinct; fuzzy |
| 陌生 | mò shēng | strange; unfamiliar |
| 模式 | mó shì | mode; method; pattern |
| 某 | mǒu | some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such |
| 目光 | mù guāng | gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision |
| 木头 | mù tou | slow-witted; blockhead; log (of wood, timber etc) |
| 哪怕 | nǎ pà | even; even if; even though; no matter how |
| 难得 | nán dé | seldom; rare; hard to come by |
| 难度 | nán dù | degree of difficulty |
| 难以 | nán yǐ | hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
| 男子 | nán zǐ | a man; a male |
| 闹 | nào | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke |
| 闹钟 | nào zhōng | alarm clock |
| 内部 | nèi bù | interior; inside (part, section); internal |
| 能干 | néng gàn | capable; competent |
| 念 | niàn | to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing; to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) |
| 年初 | nián chū | beginning of the year |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period |
| 年纪 | nián jì | age |
| 年夜饭 | nián yè fàn | New Year's Eve family dinner |
| 牛仔裤 | niú zǎi kù | jeans |
| 浓 | nóng | concentrated; dense; strong (smell etc) |
| 农民 | nóng mín | peasant; farmer |
| 农业 | nóng yè | agriculture; farming |
| 女子 | nǚ zǐ | woman; female |
| 哦 | o | sentence-final particle that conveys informality, warmth, friendliness or intimacy; may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of |
| 偶然 | ǒu rán | incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly |
| 欧洲 | Oū zhōu | Europe (abbr. for 欧罗巴洲) |
| 派 | pài | clique; school; group; faction; to dispatch; to send; to assign; to appoint; pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926; (loanword) pie |
| 排列 | pái liè | to arrange in order; (math.) permutation |
| 拍摄 | pāi shè | to take (a picture); to shoot (a film) |
| 跑道 | pǎo dào | athletic track; track; runway (i.e. airstrip) |
| 赔 | péi | to compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss |
| 配 | pèi | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate |
| 陪伴 | péi bàn | to accompany |
| 配合 | pèi hé | matching; fitting in with; compatible with; to correspond; to fit; to conform to; rapport; to coordinate with; to act in concert with; to cooperate; to become man and wife; to combine parts of machine |
| 配送 | pèi sòng | to put together an order and deliver it (i.e. 配货 and 送货); to deliver (goods) |
| 培训 | péi xùn | to cultivate; to train; to groom; training |
| 培养 | péi yǎng | to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology) |
| 盆 | pén | basin; flower pot; unit of volume equal to 12 斗 and 8 升, approx 128 liters |
| 碰 | pèng | to touch; to meet with; to bump |
| 碰见 | pèng jiàn | to run into; to meet (unexpectedly); to bump into |
| 批 | pī | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) |
| 匹 | pǐ | classifier for horses, mules etc; Taiwan pr. [pī]; ordinary person; classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower |
| 批准 | pī zhǔn | to approve; to ratify |
| 骗 | piàn | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over |
| 拼 | pīn | to piece together; to join together; to stake all; adventurous; at the risk of one's life; to spell |
| 品 | pǐn | (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute) |
| 品牌 | pǐn pái | brand name; trademark |
| 聘请 | pìn qǐng | to engage; to hire (a lawyer etc) |
| 品质 | pǐn zhì | character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc) |
| 品种 | pǐn zhǒng | breed; variety |
| 平 | píng | flat; level; equal; to tie (make the same score); to draw (score); calm; peaceful; abbr. for 平声 |
| 评 | píng | to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal) |
| 凭 | píng | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof |
| 平安 | píng ān | safe and sound; well; without mishap; quiet and safe; at peace |
| 平衡 | píng héng | balance; equilibrium |
| 评价 | píng jià | to evaluate; to assess |
| 凭借 | píng jiè | to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on |
| 平静 | píng jìng | tranquil; undisturbed; serene |
| 平均 | píng jūn | average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions |
| 屏幕 | píng mù | screen (TV, computer or movie) |
| 平台 | píng tái | platform; terrace; flat-roofed building |
| 破坏 | pò huài | destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy |
| 普及 | pǔ jí | to spread extensively; to generalize; widespread; popular; universal; ubiquitous; pervasive |
| 齐 | qí | neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out |
| 其 | qí | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) |
| 期待 | qī dài | to look forward to; to await; expectation |
| 奇迹 | qí jì | miracle; miraculous; wonder; marvel |
| 期间 | qī jiān | period of time; time; time period; period |
| 气球 | qì qiú | balloon |
| 企业 | qǐ yè | company; firm; enterprise; corporation |
| 汽油 | qì yóu | gasoline |
| 其余 | qí yú | the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them |
| 签 | qiān | to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document; inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 签); visa |
| 浅 | qiǎn | shallow; light (color) |
| 欠 | qiàn | to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body) |
| 签订 | qiān dìng | to agree to and sign (a treaty etc) |
| 前进 | qián jìn | to go forward; to forge ahead; to advance; onward |
| 前来 | qián lái | to come (formal); before; previously |
| 签名 | qiān míng | to sign (one's name with a pen etc); to autograph; signature |
| 前途 | qián tú | prospects; future outlook; journey |
| 前往 | qián wǎng | to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to |
| 签字 | qiān zì | to sign (one's name); signature |
| 墙 | qiáng | variant of 墙, wall |
| 抢 | qiǎng | to fight over; to rush; to scramble; to grab; to rob; to snatch |
| 强大 | qiáng dà | large; formidable; powerful; strong |
| 强调 | qiáng diào | to emphasize (a statement); to stress |
| 强度 | qiáng dù | strength; intensity |
| 抢救 | qiǎng jiù | to rescue |
| 强烈 | qiáng liè | strong; intense |
| 悄悄 | qiāo qiāo | quiet; making little or no noise; surreptitious; stealthy; anxious; worried; Taiwan pr. [qiǎo qiǎo] |
| 切 | qiè | definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 切 system should be applied to the previous two characters) |
| 亲 | qīn | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear |
| 亲爱 | qīn ài | dear; beloved; darling |
| 勤奋 | qín fèn | hardworking; diligent |
| 亲朋好友 | qīn péng hǎo yǒu | friends and family; kith and kin |
| 亲切 | qīn qiè | amiable; cordial; close and dear; familiar |
| 亲情 | qīn qíng | affection; family love; love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children |
| 亲人 | qīn rén | one's close relatives |
| 亲自 | qīn zì | personally; in person; oneself |
| 青 | qīng | green; blue; black; youth; young (of people) |
| 情感 | qíng gǎn | feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally) |
| 请教 | qǐng jiào | to ask for guidance; to consult |
| 情景 | qíng jǐng | scene; spectacle; circumstances; situation |
| 请求 | qǐng qiú | to request; to ask; request |
| 情绪 | qíng xù | mood; state of mind; moodiness |
| 轻易 | qīng yì | easily; lightly; rashly |
| 穷 | qióng | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly |
| 趋势 | qū shì | trend; tendency |
| 去世 | qù shì | to pass away; to die |
| 区域 | qū yù | area; region; district |
| 权 | quán | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary |
| 劝 | quàn | to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe |
| 全力 | quán lì | with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) |
| 权利 | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
| 全面 | quán miàn | all-around; comprehensive; total; overall |
| 全体 | quán tǐ | all; entire |
| 全新 | quán xīn | all new; completely new |
| 确保 | què bǎo | to ensure; to guarantee |
| 确定 | què dìng | definite; certain; fixed; to fix (on sth); to determine; to be sure; to ensure; to make certain; to ascertain; to clinch; to recognize; to confirm; OK (on computer dialog box) |
| 缺乏 | quē fá | to lack; to be short of |
| 确认 | què rèn | to confirm; to verify; confirmation |
| 群 | qún | group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc |
| 群体 | qún tǐ | community; colony |
| 燃烧 | rán shāo | to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flaming |
| 绕 | rào | to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex |
| 热爱 | rè ài | to love ardently; to adore |
| 热量 | rè liàng | heat; quantity of heat; calorific value |
| 热烈 | rè liè | enthusiastic; ardent; warm |
| 热心 | rè xīn | enthusiastic; ardent; zealous |
| 忍 | rěn | to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself |
| 认 | rèn | to recognize; to know; to admit |
| 人才 | rén cái | talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks |
| 人工 | rén gōng | artificial; manpower; manual work |
| 人口 | rén kǒu | population; people |
| 人类 | rén lèi | humanity; human race; mankind |
| 人力 | rén lì | manpower; labor power |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人民币 | rén mín bì | Renminbi (RMB); Chinese Yuan (CNY) |
| 人群 | rén qún | crowd |
| 人体 | rén tǐ | human body |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting) |
| 日历 | rì lì | calendar |
| 日用品 | rì yòng pǐn | articles for daily use |
| 如 | rú | as; as if; such as |
| 如此 | rú cǐ | like this; so; such |
| 如何 | rú hé | how; what way; what |
| 如今 | rú jīn | nowadays; now |
| 如同 | rú tóng | like; as |
| 如下 | rú xià | as follows |
| 软 | ruǎn | soft; flexible |
| 软件 | ruǎn jiàn | (computer) software |
| 弱 | ruò | weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than |
| 洒 | sǎ | to sprinkle; to spray; to spill; to shed |
| 赛场 | sài chǎng | racetrack; field (for athletics competition) |
| 色彩 | sè cǎi | tint; coloring; coloration; (fig.) flavor; character |
| 傻 | shǎ | foolish |
| 沙漠 | shā mò | desert |
| 沙子 | shā zi | sand; grit |
| 晒 | shài | (of the sun) to shine on; to bask in (the sunshine); to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun; (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share"); (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to |
| 删 | shān | to delete |
| 扇 | shàn | fan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc |
| 擅长 | shàn cháng | to be good at; to be expert in |
| 删除 | shān chú | to delete; to cancel |
| 善良 | shàn liáng | good and honest; kindhearted |
| 山区 | shān qū | mountain area |
| 善于 | shàn yú | to be good at; to be adept at |
| 扇子 | shàn zi | fan |
| 伤 | shāng | to injure; injury; wound |
| 赏 | shǎng | to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty) |
| 伤害 | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 商人 | shāng rén | merchant; businessman |
| 上升 | shàng shēng | to rise; to go up; to ascend |
| 商务 | shāng wù | commercial affairs; commercial; commerce; business |
| 上下 | shàng xià | up and down; top and bottom; old and young; length; about |
| 商业 | shāng yè | business; trade; commerce |
| 上涨 | shàng zhǎng | to rise; to go up |
| 烧 | shāo | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head |
| 烧烤 | shāo kǎo | barbecue; to roast |
| 蛇 | shé | snake; serpent |
| 设备 | shè bèi | equipment; facilities; installations |
| 舍不得 | shě bu de | to hate to do sth; to hate to part with; to begrudge |
| 舍得 | shě de | to be willing to part with sth |
| 设计 | shè jì | to design; to plan; design; plan |
| 设立 | shè lì | to set up; to establish |
| 社区 | shè qū | community; neighborhood |
| 设施 | shè shī | facilities; installation |
| 摄影 | shè yǐng | to take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie) |
| 设置 | shè zhì | to set up; to install |
| 伸 | shēn | to stretch; to extend |
| 身材 | shēn cái | stature; build (height and weight); figure |
| 深度 | shēn dù | depth; (of a speech etc) profundity; advanced stage of development |
| 身份 | shēn fèn | identity; aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank |
| 深厚 | shēn hòu | deep; profound |
| 神话 | shén huà | legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology |
| 深刻 | shēn kè | profound; deep; deep-going |
| 神秘 | shén mì | mysterious; mystery |
| 深入 | shēn rù | to penetrate deeply; thorough |
| 深远 | shēn yuǎn | far-reaching; profound and long-lasting |
| 升 | shēng | to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗 |
| 胜 | shèng | victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [shēng]) able to bear; equal to (a task) |
| 生产 | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 生存 | shēng cún | to exist; to survive |
| 生动 | shēng dòng | vivid; lively |
| 省会 | shěng huì | provincial capital |
| 升级 | shēng jí | to go up by one grade; to be promoted; to escalate (in intensity); (computing) to upgrade |
| 胜利 | shèng lì | victory |
| 升温 | shēng wēn | to become hot; temperature rise; (fig.) to intensify; to hot up; to escalate; to get a boost |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism; living creature; life form; biological |
| 生长 | shēng zhǎng | to grow; to grow up; to be brought up |
| 诗 | shī | poem; poetry; verse |
| 湿 | shī | moist; wet |
| 式 | shì | type; form; pattern; style |
| 时差 | shí chā | time difference; time lag; jet lag |
| 时常 | shí cháng | often; frequently |
| 时代 | shí dài | age; era; epoch; period (in one's life) |
| 适当 | shì dàng | suitable; appropriate |
| 使得 | shǐ de | usable; workable; feasible; doable; to make; to cause |
| 似的 | shì de | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] |
| 事故 | shì gù | accident |
| 实践 | shí jiàn | practice; to put into practice; to live up to (a promise); to carry out (a project) |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | event; happening; incident |
| 试卷 | shì juàn | examination paper; test paper |
| 时刻 | shí kè | time; juncture; moment; period of time; constantly; always |
| 实力 | shí lì | strength |
| 失恋 | shī liàn | to lose one's love; to break up (in a romantic relationship); to feel jilted |
| 失眠 | shī mián | to suffer from insomnia |
| 市民 | shì mín | city resident |
| 时期 | shí qī | period; phase |
| 诗人 | shī rén | bard; poet |
| 实施 | shí shī | to implement; to carry out |
| 事实 | shì shí | fact |
| 石头 | shí tou | stone |
| 视为 | shì wéi | to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem |
| 失误 | shī wù | lapse; mistake; to make a mistake; fault; service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc) |
| 事物 | shì wù | thing; object |
| 实习 | shí xí | to practice; field work; to intern; internship |
| 实现 | shí xiàn | to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about |
| 事先 | shì xiān | in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior |
| 实行 | shí xíng | to implement; to carry out; to put into practice |
| 实验 | shí yàn | experiment; test; experimental; to experiment |
| 试验 | shì yàn | experiment; test; to experiment; experimental |
| 实验室 | shí yàn shì | laboratory |
| 失业 | shī yè | unemployment; to lose one's job |
| 事业 | shì yè | undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation |
| 实用 | shí yòng | practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science) |
| 食用 | shí yòng | to eat; to consume; edible |
| 试用 | shì yòng | to try sth out; to be on probation |
| 适用 | shì yòng | to be applicable |
| 始终 | shǐ zhōng | from beginning to end; all along |
| 守 | shǒu | to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining |
| 首次 | shǒu cì | first; first time; for the first time |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; means (of doing sth); strategy; trick |
| 手工 | shǒu gōng | handwork; manual |
| 收获 | shōu huò | to harvest; to reap; to gain; crop; harvest; profit; gain; bonus; reward |
| 收集 | shōu jí | to gather; to collect |
| 售价 | shòu jià | selling price |
| 收看 | shōu kàn | to watch (a TV program) |
| 手术 | shǒu shù | (surgical) operation; surgery |
| 手套 | shǒu tào | glove; mitten |
| 手续 | shǒu xù | procedure; formalities |
| 手指 | shǒu zhǐ | finger |
| 束 | shù | to bind; bunch; bundle; classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc; to control |
| 鼠标 | shǔ biāo | mouse (computing) |
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
| 书法 | shū fǎ | calligraphy; handwriting; penmanship |
| 书房 | shū fáng | study (room); studio |
| 书架 | shū jià | bookshelf |
| 数据 | shù jù | data |
| 熟练 | shú liàn | practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful |
| 树木 | shù mù | tree |
| 熟人 | shú rén | acquaintance; friend |
| 输入 | shū rù | to import; to input |
| 舒适 | shū shì | cozy; snug |
| 属于 | shǔ yú | to be classified as; to belong to; to be part of |
| 摔 | shuāi | to throw down; to fall; to drop and break |
| 双方 | shuāng fāng | bilateral; both sides; both parties involved |
| 税 | shuì | taxes; duties |
| 水分 | shuǐ fèn | moisture content; (fig.) overstatement; padding |
| 睡眠 | shuì mián | sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode |
| 顺 | shùn | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable |
| 说不定 | shuō bu dìng | can't say for sure; maybe |
| 说服 | shuō fú | to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shuì fú] |
| 四处 | sì chù | all over the place; everywhere and all directions |
| 似乎 | sì hū | it seems; seemingly; as if |
| 思考 | sī kǎo | to reflect on; to ponder over |
| 私人 | sī rén | private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique |
| 思维 | sī wéi | (line of) thought; thinking |
| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought; thinking; idea; ideology |
| 四周 | sì zhōu | all around |
| 搜 | sōu | to search |
| 搜索 | sōu suǒ | to search (a place); to search (a database); to search for (sth) |
| 宿舍 | sù shè | dormitory; dorm room; living quarters; hostel |
| 酸甜苦辣 | suān tián kǔ là | sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot; fig. the joys and sorrows of life |
| 随 | suí | to follow; to comply with; varying according to...; to allow; subsequently |
| 碎 | suì | (transitive or intransitive verb) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous |
| 随后 | suí hòu | soon after |
| 随时 | suí shí | at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary |
| 随手 | suí shǒu | conveniently; without extra trouble; while doing it; in passing |
| 随意 | suí yì | as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious |
| 损害 | sǔn hài | harm; to damage; to impair |
| 损失 | sǔn shī | loss; damage; to lose; to suffer damage |
| 所 | suǒ | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive |
| 锁 | suǒ | to lock; to lock up; a lock |
| 缩短 | suō duǎn | to curtail; to cut down |
| 缩小 | suō xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to shrink |
| 他人 | tā rén | another person; sb else; other people |
| 台灯 | tái dēng | desk lamp; table lamp |
| 台阶 | tái jiē | steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology) |
| 太太 | tài tai | married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife |
| 谈话 | tán huà | to talk (with sb); to have a conversation; talk; conversation |
| 桃 | táo | peach |
| 套 | tào | to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ) |
| 特产 | tè chǎn | special local product; (regional) specialty |
| 特色 | tè sè | characteristic; distinguishing feature or quality |
| 特殊 | tè shū | special; particular; unusual; extraordinary |
| 特有 | tè yǒu | specific (to); characteristic (of); distinctive |
| 特征 | tè zhēng | characteristic; diagnostic property; distinctive feature; trait |
| 疼痛 | téng tòng | pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt; (of a person) to be in pain |
| 替 | tì | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for |
| 提倡 | tí chàng | to promote; to advocate |
| 体会 | tǐ huì | to know from experience; to learn through experience; to realize; understanding; experience |
| 提交 | tí jiāo | to submit (a report etc); to refer (a problem) to sb |
| 体力 | tǐ lì | physical strength; physical power |
| 题目 | tí mù | subject; title; topic |
| 提起 | tí qǐ | to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc) |
| 提升 | tí shēng | to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist; (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve |
| 提问 | tí wèn | to question; to quiz; to grill |
| 体现 | tǐ xiàn | to embody; to reflect; to incarnate |
| 体验 | tǐ yàn | to experience for oneself |
| 填 | tián | to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in |
| 天空 | tiān kōng | sky |
| 天上 | tiān shàng | celestial; heavenly |
| 挑 | tiǎo | to raise; to dig up; to poke; to prick; to incite; to stir up |
| 跳高 | tiào gāo | high jump (athletics) |
| 调皮 | tiáo pí | naughty; mischievous; unruly |
| 挑选 | tiāo xuǎn | to choose; to select |
| 跳远 | tiào yuǎn | long jump (athletics) |
| 挑战 | tiǎo zhàn | to challenge; challenge |
| 调整 | tiáo zhěng | to adjust; adjustment; revision |
| 贴 | tiē | to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip |
| 铁路 | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
| 停留 | tíng liú | to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over |
| 同 | tóng | like; same; similar; together; alike; with |
| 通常 | tōng cháng | regular; usual; normal; usually; normally |
| 统计 | tǒng jì | statistics; to count; to add up |
| 痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain; suffering; painful |
| 同情 | tóng qíng | to sympathize with; sympathy |
| 通行 | tōng xíng | to go through; to pass through; to be in general use |
| 同一 | tóng yī | identical; the same |
| 统一 | tǒng yī | to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated |
| 投 | tóu | to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of |
| 投入 | tóu rù | to throw into; to put into; to throw oneself into; to participate in; to invest in; absorbed; engrossed |
| 突出 | tū chū | prominent; outstanding; to give prominence to; to protrude; to project |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil; territory |
| 土豆 | tǔ dòu | potato; (Tw) peanut |
| 图画 | tú huà | drawing; picture |
| 图书 | tú shū | books (in a library or bookstore) |
| 兔子 | tù zi | hare; rabbit |
| 团 | tuán | round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) |
| 团队 | tuán duì | team |
| 退 | tuì | to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline |
| 退出 | tuì chū | to withdraw; to abort; to quit; to log out (computing) |
| 推动 | tuī dòng | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to |
| 推广 | tuī guǎng | to extend; to spread; to popularize; generalization; promotion (of a product etc) |
| 推荐 | tuī jiàn | to recommend; recommendation |
| 推进 | tuī jìn | to impel; to carry forward; to push on; to advance; to drive forward |
| 退休 | tuì xiū | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement |
| 拖鞋 | tuō xié | slippers; sandals; flip-flops |
| 外部 | wài bù | the outside; (attributive) external; exterior; surface |
| 外公 | wài gōng | (coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather |
| 外观 | wài guān | outward appearance |
| 外婆 | wài pó | (coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother |
| 外形 | wài xíng | figure; shape; external form; contour |
| 弯 | wān | to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc) |
| 玩具 | wán jù | plaything; toy |
| 完美 | wán měi | perfect |
| 完善 | wán shàn | (of systems, facilities etc) comprehensive; well-developed; excellent; to refine; to improve |
| 万一 | wàn yī | just in case; if by any chance; contingency |
| 完整 | wán zhěng | complete; intact |
| 往返 | wǎng fǎn | to go back and forth; to go to and fro; to do a round trip |
| 网络 | Wǎng luò | Internet |
| 围 | wéi | to encircle; to surround; all around; to wear by wrapping around (scarf, shawl) |
| 胃 | wèi | stomach |
| 尾巴 | wěi ba | tail; colloquial pr. [yǐ ba] |
| 维持 | wéi chí | to keep; to maintain; to preserve |
| 伟大 | wěi dà | huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc) |
| 违法 | wéi fǎ | illegal; to break the law |
| 违反 | wéi fǎn | to violate (a law) |
| 危害 | wēi hài | to jeopardize; to harm; to endanger; harmful effect; damage |
| 围巾 | wéi jīn | scarf; shawl |
| 未来 | wèi lái | future; tomorrow; approaching; coming; pending |
| 围绕 | wéi rào | to revolve around; to center on (an issue) |
| 微笑 | wēi xiào | smile; to smile |
| 威胁 | wēi xié | to threaten; to menace |
| 维修 | wéi xiū | maintenance (of equipment); to protect and maintain |
| 唯一 | wéi yī | only; sole |
| 位于 | wèi yú | to be located at; to be situated at; to lie |
| 位置 | wèi zhi | position; place; seat |
| 稳定 | wěn dìng | steady; stable; stability; to stabilize; to pacify |
| 问卷 | wèn juàn | questionnaire |
| 温暖 | wēn nuǎn | warm |
| 文学 | wén xué | literature |
| 握 | wò | to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful |
| 卧室 | wò shì | bedroom |
| 握手 | wò shǒu | to shake hands |
| 雾 | wù | fog; mist |
| 舞蹈 | wǔ dǎo | dance (performance art); dancing |
| 无关 | wú guān | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) |
| 物价 | wù jià | (commodity) prices |
| 物理 | wù lǐ | physics; physical |
| 无奈 | wú nài | to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately |
| 物品 | wù pǐn | articles; goods |
| 无数 | wú shù | countless; numberless; innumerable |
| 武术 | wǔ shù | military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫 |
| 舞台 | wǔ tái | (lit. and fig.) stage; arena |
| 无限 | wú xiàn | unlimited; unbounded |
| 无效 | wú xiào | not valid; ineffective; in vain |
| 五颜六色 | wǔ yán liù sè | multicolored; every color under the sun |
| 物业 | wù yè | property; real estate; abbr. for 物业管理, property management |
| 物质 | wù zhì | matter; substance; material; materialistic |
| 戏 | xì | trick; drama; play; show |
| 系 | xì | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) |
| 西餐 | xī cān | Western-style food |
| 吸管 | xī guǎn | (drinking) straw; pipette; eyedropper; snorkel |
| 细节 | xì jié | details; particulars |
| 戏剧 | xì jù | a drama; a play; theater; script of a play |
| 吸收 | xī shōu | to absorb; to assimilate; to ingest; to recruit |
| 系统 | xì tǒng | system |
| 西装 | xī zhuāng | suit; Western-style clothes |
| 下载 | xià zǎi | to download; also pr. [xià zài] |
| 闲 | xián | enclosure; (variant of 闲) idle; unoccupied; leisure |
| 县 | xiàn | county |
| 现场 | xiàn chǎng | the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot; (at) the site |
| 现代 | xiàn dài | modern times; modern age; modern era |
| 现代化 | xiàn dài huà | modernization |
| 显得 | xiǎn de | to seem; to look; to appear |
| 先后 | xiān hòu | early or late; priority; in succession; one after another |
| 先进 | xiān jìn | advanced (technology); to advance |
| 线路 | xiàn lù | (electricity) line; circuit; wire; (traffic) road; track; route |
| 显然 | xiǎn rán | clearly; evidently; obviously |
| 显示 | xiǎn shì | to show; to illustrate; to display; to demonstrate |
| 现实 | xiàn shí | reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested |
| 现象 | xiàn xiàng | phenomenon; appearance |
| 限制 | xiàn zhì | to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit |
| 现状 | xiàn zhuàng | current situation |
| 乡 | xiāng | country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit) |
| 相处 | xiāng chǔ | to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly) |
| 乡村 | xiāng cūn | rustic; village; countryside |
| 相当 | xiāng dāng | equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite |
| 相对 | xiāng duì | relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart |
| 相关 | xiāng guān | related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation |
| 项目 | xiàng mù | item; project; (sports) event |
| 想念 | xiǎng niàn | to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again |
| 橡皮 | xiàng pí | rubber; an eraser |
| 向上 | xiàng shàng | upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress |
| 响声 | xiǎng shēng | noise |
| 享受 | xiǎng shòu | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure |
| 相似 | xiāng sì | similar; alike |
| 想象 | xiǎng xiàng | to imagine; to envision; imagination |
| 象征 | xiàng zhēng | emblem; symbol; token; badge; to symbolize; to signify; to stand for |
| 消费 | xiāo fèi | to consume; to spend |
| 消费者 | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消化 | xiāo huà | to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process |
| 消极 | xiāo jí | negative; passive; inactive |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute |
| 销量 | xiāo liàng | sales volume |
| 效率 | xiào lǜ | efficiency |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 销售 | xiāo shòu | to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc) |
| 小型 | xiǎo xíng | small scale; small size |
| 小于 | xiǎo yú | less than, < |
| 斜 | xié | inclined; slanting; oblique; tilting |
| 协议 | xié yì | agreement; pact; protocol |
| 写作 | xiě zuò | to write; to compose; writing; written works |
| 信封 | xìn fēng | envelope |
| 新郎 | xīn láng | bridegroom; groom |
| 心理 | xīn lǐ | psychology; mentality |
| 新娘 | xīn niáng | bride |
| 新人 | xīn rén | newcomer; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) Homo sapiens |
| 信任 | xìn rèn | to trust; to have confidence in |
| 欣赏 | xīn shǎng | to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire |
| 心态 | xīn tài | attitude (of the heart); state of one's psyche; way of thinking; mentality |
| 新型 | xīn xíng | new type; new kind |
| 信用 | xìn yòng | trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint |
| 行程 | xíng chéng | journey; course of a journey; distance traveled; trajectory; itinerary; route; course (of history); stroke (of a piston); (Tw) (computing) process |
| 形成 | xíng chéng | to form; to take shape |
| 行动 | xíng dòng | operation; action; to move about; mobile |
| 行人 | xíng rén | pedestrian; traveler on foot; passer-by; official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor |
| 形容 | xíng róng | to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance |
| 行驶 | xíng shǐ | to travel along a route (of vehicles etc) |
| 形式 | xíng shì | outer appearance; form; shape; formality |
| 形势 | xíng shì | circumstances; situation; terrain |
| 行为 | xíng wéi | action; conduct; behavior; activity |
| 形象 | xíng xiàng | image; form; figure; visualization; vivid |
| 幸运 | xìng yùn | fortunate; lucky; fortune; luck |
| 性质 | xìng zhì | nature; characteristic |
| 形状 | xíng zhuàng | form; shape |
| 行走 | xíng zǒu | to walk |
| 修改 | xiū gǎi | to amend; to alter; to modify |
| 修建 | xiū jiàn | to build; to construct |
| 休闲 | xiū xián | leisure; relaxation; not working; idle; to enjoy leisure; to lie fallow |
| 需 | xū | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need |
| 需求 | xū qiú | requirement; to require; (economics) demand |
| 虚心 | xū xīn | open-minded; humble |
| 宣布 | xuān bù | to declare; to announce; to proclaim |
| 宣传 | xuān chuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to; propaganda |
| 选手 | xuǎn shǒu | athlete; contestant |
| 学分 | xué fēn | course credit |
| 学科 | xué kē | subject; branch of learning; course; academic discipline |
| 学历 | xué lì | educational background; academic qualifications |
| 学年 | xué nián | academic year |
| 学术 | xué shù | learning; science; academic |
| 学者 | xué zhě | scholar |
| 训练 | xùn liàn | to train; to drill; training |
| 迅速 | xùn sù | rapid; speedy; fast |
| 询问 | xún wèn | to inquire |
| 寻找 | xún zhǎo | to seek; to look for |
| 呀 | ya | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) |
| 牙齿 | yá chǐ | tooth; dental |
| 押金 | yā jīn | deposit; down payment |
| 压岁钱 | yā suì qián | money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve |
| 鸭子 | yā zi | duck; male prostitute (slang) |
| 沿 | yán | along; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on; to trim (a border with braid, tape etc); border; edge |
| 眼 | yǎn | eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) |
| 延长 | yán cháng | to prolong; to extend; to delay |
| 研发 | yán fā | research and development; to develop |
| 演讲 | yǎn jiǎng | lecture; to make a speech |
| 眼泪 | yǎn lèi | tears; crying |
| 严肃 | yán sù | solemn; grave; serious; earnest; severe |
| 研制 | yán zhì | to research and manufacture; to research and to develop |
| 样式 | yàng shì | type; style |
| 阳台 | yáng tái | balcony; porch |
| 腰 | yāo | waist; lower back; pocket; middle; loins |
| 摇 | yáo | to shake; to rock; to row; to crank |
| 咬 | yǎo | to bite; to nip |
| 要不 | yào bù | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) |
| 要不是 | yào bu shì | if it were not for; but for |
| 药品 | yào pǐn | medicaments; medicine; drug |
| 药物 | yào wù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals; medication; medicine; drug |
| 夜间 | yè jiān | nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes) |
| 夜市 | yè shì | night market |
| 业务 | yè wù | business; professional work; service |
| 业余 | yè yú | in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc) |
| 移 | yí | to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove |
| 乙 | yǐ | second of the ten Heavenly Stems 干; second in order; letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; second party (in legal contract, usually 方, as opposed to 方); ethyl; bent; winding; radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5); ancient Chinese compass point: 105° |
| 以 | yǐ | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) |
| 亿 | yì | 100 million |
| 一次性 | yī cì xìng | one-off (offer); one-time; single-use; disposable (goods) |
| 一代 | yī dài | generation |
| 一旦 | yī dàn | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day |
| 移动 | yí dòng | to move; movement; migration; mobile; portable |
| 遗憾 | yí hàn | regret; to regret; to be sorry that |
| 以及 | yǐ jí | as well as; too; and |
| 依据 | yī jù | according to; basis; foundation |
| 依靠 | yī kào | to rely on sth (for support etc); to depend on |
| 以来 | yǐ lái | since (a previous event) |
| 医疗 | yī liáo | medical treatment |
| 一路 | yī lù | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind |
| 一路顺风 | yī lù shùn fēng | to have a pleasant journey (idiom) |
| 依然 | yī rán | still; as before |
| 意识 | yì shí | consciousness; awareness; to be aware; to realize |
| 意外 | yì wài | unexpected; accident; mishap |
| 意味着 | yì wèi zhe | to signify; to mean; to imply |
| 疑问 | yí wèn | question; interrogation; doubt |
| 义务 | yì wù | duty; obligation; volunteer (work etc) |
| 医学 | yī xué | medicine; medical science; study of medicine |
| 意义 | yì yì | sense; meaning; significance; importance |
| 一致 | yī zhì | unanimous; identical (views or opinions) |
| 因而 | yīn ér | therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ... |
| 引进 | yǐn jìn | to recommend; to introduce (from outside) |
| 音量 | yīn liàng | loudness; volume |
| 饮食 | yǐn shí | eating and drinking; food and drink; diet |
| 印刷 | yìn shuā | to print; printing |
| 因素 | yīn sù | element; factor |
| 迎 | yíng | to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face |
| 硬 | yìng | hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial |
| 应当 | yīng dāng | should; ought to |
| 应对 | yìng duì | to answer; to reply; to handle; to deal with; response |
| 硬件 | yìng jiàn | hardware |
| 迎接 | yíng jiē | to welcome; to greet |
| 影片 | yǐng piàn | a copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie |
| 影视 | yǐng shì | movies and television |
| 营养 | yíng yǎng | nutrition; nourishment |
| 营业 | yíng yè | to do business; to trade |
| 应用 | yìng yòng | to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc); application; practical use; (computing) app |
| 拥抱 | yōng bào | to embrace; to hug |
| 用法 | yòng fǎ | usage |
| 用户 | yòng hù | user; consumer; subscriber; customer |
| 用力 | yòng lì | to exert oneself physically |
| 用品 | yòng pǐn | articles for use; products; goods |
| 勇气 | yǒng qì | courage; valor |
| 用途 | yòng tú | use; application |
| 拥有 | yōng yǒu | to have; to possess |
| 由此 | yóu cǐ | hereby; from this |
| 幼儿园 | yòu ér yuán | kindergarten; nursery school |
| 有害 | yǒu hài | destructive; harmful; damaging |
| 优惠 | yōu huì | privilege; favorable (terms); preferential (treatment); discount (price) |
| 悠久 | yōu jiǔ | long (tradition, history etc) |
| 邮局 | yóu jú | post office |
| 游览 | yóu lǎn | to go sightseeing; to tour; to visit |
| 有力 | yǒu lì | powerful; forceful; vigorous |
| 有利 | yǒu lì | advantageous; favorable |
| 优良 | yōu liáng | fine; good; first-rate |
| 优美 | yōu měi | graceful; fine; elegant |
| 邮票 | yóu piào | (postage) stamp |
| 优势 | yōu shì | superiority; dominance; advantage |
| 有限 | yǒu xiàn | limited; finite |
| 有益 | yǒu yì | useful; beneficial; profitable |
| 犹豫 | yóu yù | to hesitate |
| 优质 | yōu zhì | excellent quality |
| 有助于 | yǒu zhù yú | to contribute to; to promote |
| 预报 | yù bào | forecast |
| 预测 | yù cè | to forecast; to predict |
| 预订 | yù dìng | to place an order; to book ahead |
| 预防 | yù fáng | to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect; to guard against; precautionary; prophylactic |
| 预计 | yù jì | to forecast; to predict; to estimate |
| 娱乐 | yú lè | to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy |
| 玉米 | yù mǐ | corn; maize |
| 语气 | yǔ qì | tone; manner of speaking; mood |
| 雨水 | Yǔ shuǐ | Yushui or Rain Water, 2nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 19th February-5th March |
| 语音 | yǔ yīn | speech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message |
| 预约 | yù yuē | booking; reservation; to book; to make an appointment |
| 原 | yuán | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source |
| 圆 | yuán | circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) |
| 愿 | yuàn | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing |
| 元旦 | Yuán dàn | New Year's Day |
| 员工 | yuán gōng | staff; personnel; employee |
| 愿望 | yuàn wàng | desire; wish |
| 原有 | yuán yǒu | original; former |
| 原则 | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
| 约定 | yuē dìng | to agree on sth (after discussion); to conclude a bargain; to arrange; to promise; to stipulate; to make an appointment; stipulated (time, amount, quality etc); an arrangement; a deal; appointment; undertaking; commitment; understanding; engagement; stipulation |
| 运 | yùn | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate |
| 运气 | yùn qi | luck (good or bad) |
| 运输 | yùn shū | to transport; to carry; transportation |
| 运用 | yùn yòng | to use; to put to use |
| 在场 | zài chǎng | to be present; to be on the scene |
| 在乎 | zài hu | to care about; equivalent of 在于 |
| 在内 | zài nèi | (included) in it; among them |
| 在线 | zài xiàn | online |
| 在于 | zài yú | to be in; to lie in; to consist in; to depend on; to rest with |
| 赞成 | zàn chéng | to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist |
| 糟 | zāo | dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined |
| 造 | zào | to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops |
| 造成 | zào chéng | to bring about; to create; to cause |
| 糟糕 | zāo gāo | too bad; how terrible; what bad luck; terrible; bad |
| 早期 | zǎo qī | early period; early phase; early stage |
| 早晚 | zǎo wǎn | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day |
| 早已 | zǎo yǐ | for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past |
| 增 | zēng | (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to |
| 赠 | zèng | to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old) |
| 增进 | zēng jìn | to promote; to enhance; to further; to advance (a cause etc) |
| 增强 | zēng qiáng | to increase; to strengthen |
| 赠送 | zèng sòng | to present as a gift |
| 炸 | zhà | to burst; to explode; to blow up; (fig.) to fly into a rage |
| 摘 | zhāi | to take; to borrow; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to select; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc) |
| 窄 | zhǎi | narrow; narrow-minded; badly off |
| 占 | zhàn | to take possession of; to occupy; to take up |
| 展出 | zhǎn chū | to put on display; to be on show; to exhibit |
| 展开 | zhǎn kāi | to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out |
| 展览 | zhǎn lǎn | to put on display; to exhibit; exhibition; show |
| 展示 | zhǎn shì | to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit |
| 站台 | zhàn tái | platform (at a railway station); (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate); (Tw) website |
| 展现 | zhǎn xiàn | to unfold before one's eyes; to emerge; to reveal; to display |
| 占线 | zhàn xiàn | busy (telephone line) |
| 涨 | zhàng | to swell; to distend |
| 账号 | zhàng hào | account; username |
| 账户 | zhàng hù | bank account; online account |
| 涨价 | zhǎng jià | to appreciate (in value); to increase in price |
| 掌声 | zhǎng shēng | applause |
| 掌握 | zhǎng wò | to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency |
| 召开 | zhào kāi | to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together |
| 着凉 | zháo liáng | to catch cold; Taiwan pr. [zhāo liáng] |
| 折扣 | zhé kòu | discount |
| 哲学 | zhé xué | philosophy |
| 阵 | zhèn | disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration |
| 真诚 | zhēn chéng | sincere; genuine; true |
| 诊断 | zhěn duàn | to diagnose |
| 针对 | zhēn duì | to target; to focus on; to be aimed at or against; in response to |
| 珍贵 | zhēn guì | precious |
| 真实 | zhēn shí | true; real |
| 珍惜 | zhēn xī | to treasure; to value; to cherish |
| 争 | zhēng | to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary) |
| 挣 | zhèng | to struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money) |
| 政府 | zhèng fǔ | government |
| 证据 | zhèng jù | evidence; proof; testimony |
| 整齐 | zhěng qí | orderly; neat; even; tidy |
| 争取 | zhēng qǔ | to fight for; to strive for; to win over |
| 正如 | zhèng rú | just as; precisely as |
| 证书 | zhèng shū | credentials; certificate |
| 整体 | zhěng tǐ | whole entity; entire body; synthesis; as a whole (situation, construction, team etc); global; macrocosm; integral; holistic; whole |
| 整整 | zhěng zhěng | whole; full |
| 政治 | zhèng zhì | politics; political |
| 支 | zhī | to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions |
| 直 | zhí | straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters |
| 止 | zhǐ | to stop; to prohibit; until; only |
| 至 | zhì | to arrive; most; to; until |
| 治 | zhì | to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research |
| 直播 | zhí bō | (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast; (Internet) to livestream; (agriculture) direct seeding |
| 指导 | zhǐ dǎo | to guide; to give directions; to direct; to coach; guidance; tuition |
| 制订 | zhì dìng | to work out; to formulate |
| 制定 | zhì dìng | to draw up; to formulate |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
| 职工 | zhí gōng | workers; staff |
| 智慧 | zhì huì | wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence |
| 至今 | zhì jīn | so far; to this day; until now |
| 治疗 | zhì liáo | to treat (an illness); medical treatment; therapy |
| 知名 | zhī míng | well-known; famous |
| 智能 | zhì néng | intelligent; able; smart (phone, system, bomb etc) |
| 执行 | zhí xíng | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run |
| 志愿者 | zhì yuàn zhě | volunteer |
| 制造 | zhì zào | to manufacture; to make |
| 制作 | zhì zuò | to make; to manufacture |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important; major; significant |
| 众多 | zhòng duō | numerous |
| 中华 | Zhōng huá | China (alternate formal name) |
| 中华民族 | Zhōng huá mín zú | the Chinese nation; the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China) |
| 中级 | zhōng jí | middle level (in a hierarchy) |
| 中介 | zhōng jiè | to act as intermediary; to link; intermediate; inter-; agency; agent |
| 种类 | zhǒng lèi | kind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sort; class |
| 重量 | zhòng liàng | weight |
| 中期 | zhōng qī | middle (of a period of time); medium-term (plan, forecast etc) |
| 中外 | zhōng wài | Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 中药 | zhōng yào | traditional Chinese medicine |
| 中医 | Zhōng yī | traditional Chinese medical science; a doctor trained in Chinese medicine |
| 种植 | zhòng zhí | to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate |
| 种子 | zhǒng zi | seed |
| 周年 | zhōu nián | anniversary; annual |
| 猪 | zhū | hog; pig; swine |
| 煮 | zhǔ | to cook; to boil |
| 逐步 | zhú bù | progressively; step by step |
| 注册 | zhù cè | to register; to enroll |
| 主持 | zhǔ chí | to take charge of; to manage or direct; to preside over; to uphold; to stand for (justice etc); to host (a TV or radio program etc); (TV) anchor |
| 主动 | zhǔ dòng | to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被动; drive (of gears and shafts etc) |
| 住房 | zhù fáng | housing |
| 主观 | zhǔ guān | subjective |
| 逐渐 | zhú jiàn | gradually |
| 主人 | zhǔ rén | master; host; owner |
| 主任 | zhǔ rèn | director; head |
| 主食 | zhǔ shí | staple food |
| 住宿 | zhù sù | to stay at; lodging; accommodation |
| 主题 | zhǔ tí | theme; subject |
| 主席 | zhǔ xí | chairperson; premier; chairman |
| 住址 | zhù zhǐ | address |
| 注重 | zhù zhòng | to pay attention to; to emphasize |
| 竹子 | zhú zi | bamboo |
| 抓 | zhuā | to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch |
| 抓紧 | zhuā jǐn | to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to; to lose no time in (doing sth) |
| 转变 | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform; shift; transformation |
| 转告 | zhuǎn gào | to pass on; to communicate; to transmit |
| 专家 | zhuān jiā | expert; specialist |
| 专心 | zhuān xīn | to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth) |
| 撞 | zhuàng | to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident |
| 状况 | zhuàng kuàng | condition; state; situation |
| 装饰 | zhuāng shì | to decorate; decoration; decorative; ornamental |
| 状态 | zhuàng tài | condition; state; state of affairs |
| 装修 | zhuāng xiū | to decorate; interior decoration; to fit up; to renovate |
| 追 | zhuī | to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously |
| 追求 | zhuī qiú | to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo |
| 紫 | zǐ | purple; violet |
| 自从 | zì cóng | since (a time); ever since |
| 自动 | zì dòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 资格 | zī gé | qualifications; seniority |
| 资金 | zī jīn | funds; capital |
| 自觉 | zì jué | conscious; aware; on one's own initiative; conscientious |
| 字母 | zì mǔ | letter (of the alphabet) |
| 子女 | zǐ nǚ | children; sons and daughters |
| 自身 | zì shēn | itself; oneself; one's own |
| 姿势 | zī shì | posture; position |
| 咨询 | zī xún | to consult; to seek advice; consultation; (sales) inquiry (formal) |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 资源 | zī yuán | natural resource (such as water or minerals); resource (such as manpower or tourism) |
| 总部 | zǒng bù | general headquarters |
| 总共 | zǒng gòng | altogether; in sum; in all; in total |
| 综合 | zōng hé | comprehensive; composite; synthesized; mixed; to sum up; to integrate; to synthesize |
| 总数 | zǒng shù | total; sum; aggregate |
| 总体 | zǒng tǐ | completely; totally; total; entire; overall; population (statistics) |
| 总统 | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 总之 | zǒng zhī | in a word; in short; in brief |
| 族 | zú | race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) |
| 组成 | zǔ chéng | to form; to make up; to constitute |
| 足够 | zú gòu | enough; sufficient |
| 组合 | zǔ hé | to assemble; to combine; to compose; combination; association; set; compilation; (math.) combinatorial |
| 租金 | zū jīn | rent |
| 阻止 | zǔ zhǐ | to prevent; to block |
| 组织 | zǔ zhī | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave |
| 醉 | zuì | intoxicated |
| 嘴巴 | zuǐ ba | mouth; slap in the face |
| 最初 | zuì chū | first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally |
| 最佳 | zuì jiā | optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) |
| 尊敬 | zūn jìng | to respect; to revere; to esteem; honorable; distinguished (used on formal occasions before a term of address) |
| 遵守 | zūn shǒu | to comply with; to abide by; to respect (an agreement) |
| 作出 | zuò chū | to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract |
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HSK 5 vocabulary at a glance
This hsk 5 vocabulary contains about 3,600 in total words from the current NewHSK standard, in the order they are taught. Each entry has the characters, pinyin with tone marks and the main English meaning. HSK 5 is the C1 level, where you learn to read newspapers and magazines, watch Chinese TV and give a structured talk on a topic.
How to learn the hsk 5 words
Study ten to fifteen new hsk 5 words a day, and review the earlier ones with flashcards. Say each word aloud, write it once by hand and read it in a sentence.
- Learn idioms (成语) in context, not from lists.
- Practise the longer writing tasks with a timer.
- Read one news article a day and summarise it in Chinese.
Frequently asked questions
How many words are on the HSK 5 list?
The NewHSK 5 list has about 3,600 in total words. Here they are grouped by level with pinyin and meaning.
Can I practise these words?
Yes. Open a character to see its stroke order, or use flashcards and quizzes for the whole level.
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