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