verbs Flashcards
吃
chī
to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
喝
hē - to drink / My goodness!
hè - to shout loudly
常
cháng
always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant / surname chang
摸
mō
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract
闻
wén
to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at / surname wen
看
kàn - to see / to look at / to read / to watch / to visit / to call on / to consider / to regard as / to look after / to treat (an illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after verb) to give it a try / Watch out! (for a danger)
kān - to look after / to take care of / to watch / to guard
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
qìng - parents-in-law of one’s offspring
听
tīng - to listen / to hear / to obey / a can (loanword from English “tin”) / classifier for canned beverages
tìng - (literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow
说
shuō - to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
shuì - to canvass / to persuade / see 遊說|游说[you2 shui4], to canvass and 說客|说客[shui4 ke4], persuasive speaker
问
wèn
to ask
读
Dú - to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]
dòu - comma / phrase marked by pause
写
xiě
to write
画
huà
to draw / picture / painting / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]
走
zǒu
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
跳
tiào
to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate
停
tíng
to stop / to halt / to park (a car)
打
dǎ - to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from
dá - dozen (loanword)
站
zhàn
station / to stand / to halt / to stop / branch of a company or organization / website
坐
zuò
to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4] / surname zuo
躺
tǎng
to recline / to lie down
开
kāi
to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (vehicle) / abbr. for 開爾文|开尔文 degrees Kelvin
关
guān
mountain pass / to close / to shut / to turn off / to concern / to involve / surname guan
买
mǎi
to buy / to purchase
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
出
chū
to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
穿
chuān
to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to dress / to wear / to put on / to thread
脱
tuō
to shed / to take off / to escape / to get away from
戴
dài
to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc) / to respect / to bear / to support / surname dai
等
děng
class / rank / grade / equal to / same as / to wait for / to await / et cetera / and so on / et al. (and other authors) / after / as soon as / once
做
zuò
to do / to make / to produce / to write / to compose / to act as / to engage in / to hold (a party) / to be / to become / to function (in some capacity) / to serve as / to be used for / to form (a bond or relationship) / to pretend / to feign / to act a part / to put on appearance
剪
jiǎn
scissors / shears / clippers / to cut with scissors / to trim / to wipe out or exterminate / surname jian
切
qiè - to cut / to slice / tangent (math)
qiè - definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / close to / eager / to correspond to / see also 反切[fan3 qie4]
挖
wā
to dig / to excavate / to scoop out
洗
xǐ
to wash / to bathe / to develop (photo)
找
zhǎo
to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change
放
fàng
to release / to free / to let go / to put / to place / to let out / to set off (fireworks)
包
bāo
to cover / to wrap / to hold / to include / to take charge of / to contract (to or for) / package / wrapper / container / bag / to hold or embrace / bundle / packet / surname bao
挂
guà
to hang or suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / to hang (computing) / to be worried or concerned / to make a phone call (dialect) / to register or record / to hitch / classifier for sets or clusters of objects / (slang) to kill / to die / to be finished / to fail (an exam)
扔
rēng
to throw / to throw away
撞
zhuàng
to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident
抓
zhuā
to grab / to catch / to arrest / to snatch / to scratch
拿
ná
to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
给
gěi
to / for / for the benefit of / to give / to allow / to do sth (for sb) / (grammatical equivalent of 被) / (grammatical equivalent of 把) / (sentence intensifier)
捡
jiǎn
to pick up / to collect / to gather
推
tuī
to push / to cut / to refuse / to reject / to decline / to shirk (responsibility) / to put off / to delay / to push forward / to nominate / to elect / massage
拉
lā
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat
飞
fēi
to fly
笑
xiào
laugh / smile
哭
kū
to cry / to weep
咬
yǎo
to bite / to nip
撕
sī -
to tear / mutually / with one another / manservant / boy servant / guy (derog.)
喂
wèi
to feed
