most common word Flashcards
杯子
bēizi > cup / glass
杯 > cup
本子
běnzi > book / notebook / edition
本 > source / root
别的
bié de > else / other
差
chà - to differ from / to fall short of / lacking / wrong / inferior
chā - difference / discrepancy / to differ / error / to err / to make a mistake
常
cháng > always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant / surname chang
唱
chàng > to sing / to call loudly / to chant
唱歌
chànggē > to sing a song
唱 > to sing; 歌 > song / to sing
错
cuò > mistake / wrong / bad / interlocking / complex / to grind / to polish / to alternate / to stagger / to miss / to let slip / to evade / to inlay with gold or silver / surname cuo
爱好
aihào > to like / to take pleasure in / keen on / fond of / interest / hobby / appetite for
白天
báitiān > daytime / during the day / day
白 > bright; 天 > day
百
bǎi > hundred / numerous / all kinds of / surname bai
半天
bàntiān > half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair
半 > half; 天 > day
本
běn > roots or stems of plants / origin / source / this / the current / root / foundation / basis / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc / originally
病
bìng > illness / disease / to fall ill / defect
菜
cài > dish (type of food) / vegetable / cuisine / (coll.) (one’s) type
车上
chē shàng > in the car
车> car; 上 > to get onto
车站
chēzhàn > rail station / bus stop
车 > car; 站 > station
别
bié - to leave / to depart / to separate / to distinguish / to classify / other / another / do not / must not / to pin / to stick (sth) in / surname bie
biè - to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
次
cì > next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time
打车
dǎchē > to take a taxi (in town)/to hitch a lift
打 > to hit; 车 > car
打电话
dǎ diànhuà > to make a telephone call
打 > to hit; 电 > electric; 话 > speech
打开
dǎkāi > to open / to show (a ticket) / to turn on / to switch on
打 > to hit; 开 > open/start
大学
dàxué > the great learning, one of the four books 四書|四书[si4 shu1] in confucianism / university / college
得到
dédào > to get / to obtain / to receive
地
de > -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
得
dé - to obtain / to get / to gain / to catch (a disease) / proper / suitable / proud / contented / to allow / to permit / ready / finished
de - structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
的
de - of / ~’s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute) / (used to form a nominal expression) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
dì - aim / clear24
dí - really and truly
地
dì > earth / ground / field / place / land
地点
dìdiǎn > place / site / location / venue
地 > earth; 点 > point
地方
dìfāng > area / place / space / room / territory
地上
dìshàng > on the ground / on the floor
地图
dìtú > map
第二
dì èr (di ar) >second / number two / next
电视机
diànshì jī > television set
电 > electric; 视 > to look; 机 > machine
动作
dòngzuò > movement / motion / action
动 > to move; 作 > to do
读
dú - to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]
dòu - comma / phrase marked by pause
饭店
fàndiàn > restaurant / hotel
饭 > food; 店 > shop
房子
fángzi > house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room
房价
fáng jià > house price / cost of housing
房 > house; 价 > price
干
gān - dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore / surname gan / to concern / to interfere / shield / stem
gàn - tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar)
干净
gānjìng > clean / neat
干 > dry/clean; 净 > neat
干什么
gànshénme > what are you doing?/what’s he up to?
关
guān > mountain pass / to close / to shut / to turn off / to concern / to involve / surname guan
过
guò > (experienced action marker) / to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too- / surname guo
还是
háishì > or / still / nevertheless
孩子
háizi > child
汉语
hànyǔ > Chinese language
汉字
hànzì > chinese character / japanese: kanji / korean: hanja / vietnamese: hán tự
好看
hǎokàn > good-looking / nice-looking / good (of a movie, book, tv show etc) / embarrassed / humiliated
好 > good; 看 > to look at
好听
hǎotīng > pleasant to hear
好 > good; 听 > to hear
号
hào - ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
háo - roar / cry
后
hòu - back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later
hòu - empress / queen / surname hou
话
huà > dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said
坏
huài > bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost
还
hái - still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else
huán - to pay back / to return / surname huan
回答
huídá > to reply / to answer / the answer
回 > go back; 答 > reply/answer
几
jǐ - how much / how many / several / a few
jī - almost / small table
记
jì > to record / to note / to remember / mark / sign / classifier for blows, kicks, shots
记住
jì zhù > to remember / to bear in mind / to learn by heart
见面
jiànmiàn > to meet / to see each other
教学楼
jiàoxué lóu > teaching block/school building
教 > teaching; 学 > to study; 楼 > storied building
进
jìn > to advance / to enter / to come (or go) into / to receive or admit / to eat or drink / to submit or present / (used after a verb) into, in / to score a goal
金
jīn > jurchen jin dynasty (1115-1234) / gold / chemical element au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] / surname kim (korean)surname jin
近
jìn > near / close to / approximately
尽
jǐn - to the greatest extent / (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme / to be within the limits of / to give priority to
jìn - to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth)
仅
jìn > barely / only / merely
开会
kāihuì > to hold a meeting / to attend a meeting
开 > to start; 会 > to meet
开玩笑
kāiwánxiào > to play a joke/to make fun of/to joke
开 > to start; 玩 > to have fun; 笑 > laugh
看病
kànbìng > to visit a doctor / to see a patient
看 > to see; 病 > illness
考
kǎo > to check / to verify / to test / to examine / to take an exam / to take an entrance exam for / deceased father
渴
kě
thirsty
克
kè
to be able to / to subdue / to restrain / to overcome / gram / Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares / ke (c. 2000 bc), seventh of the legendary flame emperors, 炎帝[yan2 di4] descended from shennong 神農|神农[shen2 nong2] farmer god / variant of 克[ke4] / to subdue / to overthrow / to restrain
科
kē
branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb
客
kè
customer / visitor / guest
刻
kè
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals
课
kè
subject / course / class / lesson / to levy / tax / form of divination
课本
kèběn
textbook
课文
kèwén
text
会
kuài
to balance an account / accountancy / accounting
块
lump (of earth) / chunk / piece / classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
筷
kuài
chopstick
楼
lóu
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / surname lou
楼上
lóu shàng
upstairs
楼下
lóu xià
downstairs
路
lù
road / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort / kind / surname lu
路口
lùkǒu
crossing / intersection (of roads)
路上
lùshàng
on the road / on a journey / road surface
马路
mǎlù
street / road
慢
màn
slow
忙
máng
busy / hurriedly / to hurry / to rush
毛
máo
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1]) / surname mao
没关系
méiguānxì
it doesn’t matter
没什么
méishénme
nothing/it doesn’t matter/it’s nothing/never mind
没事儿
méishì er (mei shir)
free / it’s not important / it’s nothing / nevermind
门票
mén piào
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
哪里 / 哪儿
nǎlǐ / nǎ’er
where
那些
nàxiē
those
那边
nà biān
over there / yonder
奶
nǎi
breast / milk / to breastfeed
男孩儿
nánhái ér
boy
男朋友
nán péngyǒu
male friend/boyfriend
男生
nánshēng
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
难
nán - difficult (to…) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
nán - disaster / distress / to scold
女儿 / 女孩儿
nǚ’ér / nǚhái ér
daughter
女朋友
nǚ péngyǒu
female friend / girlfriend
旁边
pángbiān
lateral / side / to the side / beside
起床
qǐchuáng
to get out of bed / to get up
起来
qǐlái
to stand up / to get up / (after a verb) with an upward movement
汽车
qìchē
car / automobile / bus
前
qián
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former /
前边
qiánbian
front/the front side/in front of
钱包
qiánbāo
purse / wallet
请假
qǐngjià
to request leave of absence
请进
qǐng jìn
“please come in”
请问
qǐngwèn
Excuse me, may I ask…?
去年
qùnián
last year
认真
rènzhēn
conscientious / earnest / serious / to take seriously / to take to heart
日期
rìqí
date
日
rì
abbr. for 日本[ri4 ben3], japan / sun / day / date, day of the month
上班
shàngbān
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
上边
shàngbian
the top/above/overhead/upwards/the top margin/above-mentioned/those higher up
上车
shàng chē
to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
上次
shàng cì
last time
上网
shàngwǎng
to be on the internet / to stretch a net (in a sports game or for covering sth) / to be netted (of fish)
上午
shàngwǔ
morning
身上
shēnshang
on the body
生病
shēngbìng
to fall ill / to sicken
式
shì
type / form / pattern / style
手机
shǒujī
cell phone / mobile phone
书店
shūdiàn
bookstore
送
sòng
to deliver / to carry / to give (as a present) / to present (with) / to see off / to send
听见
tīngjiàn
to hear
听写
tīngxiě
dictate / dictation
同学
tóngxué
to study at the same school / fellow student / classmate
图书馆
túshū guǎn
library
外边
wàibian
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one’s home
外国
wàiguó
foreign (country)
外语
wàiyǔ
foreign language
晚
wǎn
evening / night / late
晚上
wǎnshàng
evening / night / in the evening
网上
wǎngshàng
online
网友
wǎngyǒu
online friend / Internet user
午饭
wǔfàn
lunch
洗手间
xǐshǒujiān
toilet/lavatory/washroom
下班
xiàbān
to finish work / to get off work
下车
xià chē
to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
下课
xiàkè
to finish class / to get out of class
下午
xiàwǔ
afternoon / p.m.
现在
xiànzài
now / at present / at the moment / modern / current / nowadays
小姐
xiǎojiě
young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute
小学
xiǎoxué
elementary school / primary school
小学生
xiǎoxuéshēng
primary school student / schoolchild
笑
xiào
laugh / smile
行
xíng
to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / ok! / will do / behavior / conduct / taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense
学生
xuéshēng
student / schoolchild
学校
xuéxiào
school
学院
xuéyuàn
college / educational institute / school / faculty
页
yè
page / leaf
一块儿
yīkuài er
together
一下儿
yīxià er
a while
一点儿
yīdiǎn er
a little
有时候
yǒu shíhòu
sometimes
右
yòu
right (-hand) / the Right (politics) / west (old)
元
yuán
the yuan or mongol dynasty (1279-1368) / unit of money (in prc: chinese yuan, in usa: dollar, etc) / primary / first / surname yuan
远
yuǎn
far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)
这些
zhèxiē
these
正
zhèng - just (right) / main / upright / straight / correct / positive / greater than zero / principle / to correct / to rectify
zhēng - first month of the lunar year
知识
zhīshì
intellectual / knowledge-related / knowledge
中间
zhōngjiān
between / intermediate / mid / middle
中学生
zhōngxuéshēng
middle-school student/high school student
重
zhòng
heavy / serious / to attach importance to
桌子
zhuōzi
table / desk
最后
zuìhòu
final / last / finally / ultimate
左
zuǒ
left / the left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3] / surname zuo
椅子
yǐzi
chair
现在
xiànzài
now / at present / at the moment / modern / current / nowadays
火车站
huǒchē zhàn
train station
出租车
chūzū chē
taxi
前面
qiánmiàn
ahead / in front / preceding / above
零
líng
zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither
电脑
diànnǎo
computer
喂
wèi
hello (when answering the phone)
送
sòng
to deliver / to carry / to give (as a present) / to present (with) / to see off / to send
张
zhāng
to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes / surname zhang
次
cì
next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time
唱歌
chànggē
to sing a song
阴
yīn
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / yin (the negative principle of yin and yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia / surname yin
姓
xìng
family name / to be surnamed / surname
红
hóng
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus / surname hong
船
chuán
a boat / vessel / ship
圆
yuán
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (Yuan) / tactful / to justify
鸡蛋
jīdàn
(chicken) egg / hen’s egg
正在
zhèngzài
in the process of (doing something or happening) / while (doing)
件
jiàn
item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc
千
qiān - thousand
qiān - a swing
希望
xīwàng
to wish for / to desire / hope
一起
yīqǐ
in the same place / together / with / altogether (in total)
公斤
gōngjīn
kilogram (kg)
离
lí
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲ / surname li
报纸
bàozhǐ
newspaper / newsprint
就
jiù
at once / right away / only / just (emphasis) / as early as / already / as soon as / then / in that case / as many as / even if / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / to suffer / subjected to / to accomplish / to take advantage of / to go with (of foods) / with regard to / concerning
便宜
piányí
small advantages / to let sb off lightly / cheap / inexpensive
公司
gōngsī
(business) company / company / firm / corporation / incorporated
雪
xuě
snow / snowfall / to have the appearance of snow / to wipe away, off or out / to clean / surname xue
羊肉
yángròu
mutton / goat meat / lamb
号
hào
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
去年
qùnián
last year
机票
jīpiào
air ticket / passenger ticket
喃
nán
mumble in repetition
