唉 | āi | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh |
挨 | ái | to suffer; to endure; to pull through (hard times); to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle |
癌 | ái | cancer; carcinoma; also pr. [yan2] |
安 | ān | content; calm; still; quiet; safe; secure; in good health; to find a place for; to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to pacify; security; safety; peace; ampere; surname An |
熬 | áo | endure; to boil |
扒 | bā | to hold on to; to cling to; to dig up; to rake; to push aside; to climb; to pull out; to strip off |
坝 | bà | dam; dike; embankment; CL: 条 |
罢 | bà | to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish |
般 | bān | sort; kind; class; way; manner |
瓣 | bàn | petal; segment; clove (of garlic); piece; section; fragment; valve; lamella; classifier for pieces, segments etc |
绑 | bǎng | to tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap |
棒 | bàng | a stick; club or cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race |
磅 | bàng | see 磅秤 scale; platform balance; pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) |
剥 | bāo | to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck |
宝 | bǎo | a jewel or gem; a treasure; precious |
辈 | bèi | contemporaries; generation; lifetime |
奔 | bēn | to hurry or rush; to run quickly; to elope |
奔 | bèn | go to; towards |
甭 | béng | need not; (contraction of 不 and 用) |
壁 | bì | wall; rampart |
必 | bì | certainly; must; will; necessarily |
丙 | bǐng | third of 10 heavenly stems 十天干; third in order; letter "C" or roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; propyl |
柄 | bǐng | handle or shaft (of an axe etc); (of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem; sth that affords an advantage to an opponent; classifier for knives or blades |
饼 | bǐng | round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry; CL:张 |
拨 | bō | to push aside; to appropriate (money); to move; to set aside; to poke; to stir; group (of people); batch; to dial |
播 | bō | to sow; to scatter; to spread; to broadcast; Taiwan pr. [bo4] |
蚕 | cán | silkworm |
惨 | cǎn | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; seriously; badly; tragic |
舱 | cāng | cabin; the hold of a ship or airplane |
侧 | cè | the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side |
测 | cè | side; to lean; to survey; to measure; conjecture |
铲 | chǎn | to shovel; to remove; spade; shovel; to level off; to root up |
肠 | cháng | intestines |
潮 | cháo | tide; current; damp; moist; humid |
炒 | chǎo | saute; pan-fry; to fry; fried |
扯 | chě | to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip |
撤 | chè | to remove; to take away; to withdraw |
沉 | chén | to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy |
撑 | chēng | to support; to prop-up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support |
盛 | chéng | to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensil |
池 | chí | pond; reservoir; moat; surname Chi |
迟 | chí | late; delayed; slow; surname Chi |
冲 | chòng | powerful; vigorous; pungent; towards; in view of |
仇 | chóu | hatred; animosity; enmity; a rival; an enemy; feud |
丑 | chǒu | shameful; ugly; disgraceful; clown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox; surname Chou |
喘 | chuǎn | to gasp; to pant; asthma |
串 | chuàn | to string together; to mix up; to conspire; to rove; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across; bunch or cluster; string (computing); classifier for rows or strings |
垂 | chuí | to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach |
纯 | chún | pure; simple; unmixed; genuine |
瓷 | cí | chinaware; porcelain; china |
丛 | cóng | cluster; collection; collection of books; thicket |
凑 | còu | to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity |
窜 | cuàn | to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish; to amend or edit |
搓 | cuō | to rub or roll between the hands or fingers; to twist |
达 | dá | to attain; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminent; surname Da |
担 | dān | to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility |
胆 | dǎn | the gall; the nerve; courage; guts; gall bladder |
蹬 | dēng | to pedal |
瞪 | dèng | to open (one's eyes) wide; to stare at; to glare at |
堤 | dī | dike |
底 | dǐ | background; bottom; base; the end of a period of time; towards the end of (last month) |
抵 | dǐ | to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to equal; to balance; to make up for; to mortgage; to arrive |
垫 | diàn | pad; cushion; mat |
爹 | diē | dad |
叠 | dié | to fold; to fold over in layers; to furl; to layer; to pile up; to repeat; to duplicate |
丁 | dīng | fourth of 10 heavenly stems 十天干; fourth in order; letter "D" or roman "IV" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; butyl; cubes (of food); surname Ding |
盯 | dīng | to watch attentively; to fix attention on; to stare; to gaze; to follow; to shadow sb |
钉 | dīng | nail; to pin up; to nail; to keep at sb; to follow closely |
抖 | dǒu | to tremble; to shake out; to reveal; to make it in the world |
陡 | dǒu | steep; precipitous; abrubtly; suddenly; unexpectedly |
斗 | dòu | to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together |
毒 | dú | poison; narcotics; evil |
恶 | è | evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm |
罚 | fá | to punish; to penalize |
番 | fān | foreign; ethnic groups from outside China; (when used after a verb) times or fold; classifier for the number of iterations of an action or deed etc |
烦 | fán | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy |
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 反切 phonetic system |
返 | fǎn | to return (to) |
纺 | fǎng | to spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric |
非 | fēi | to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; to reproach or blame; (colloquial) to insist on; simply must; abbr. for 非洲, Africa |
废 | fèi | to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste |
坟 | fén | grave; tomb; CL:座; embankment; mound; ancient book |
粉 | fěn | powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; whitewash; white; pink |
粪 | fèn | manure; dung |
疯 | fēng | insane; mad; wild |
缝 | féng | to sew; to stitch |
服 | fú | clothes; dress; garment; to serve; to obey; to convince; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes |
俯 | fǔ | look down; stoop |
负 | fù | lose; negative (math. etc); to bear; to carry (on one's back) |
甘 | gān | sweet; willing; surname Gan; abbr. for Gansu Province 甘肃省 |
缸 | gāng | jar; vat; classifier for loads of laundry; CL:口 |
稿 | gǎo | manuscript; draft; stalk of grain |
公 | gōng | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) |
宫 | gōng | palace; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale; surname Gong |
弓 | gōng | a bow (weapon); CL:张; surname Gong |
攻 | gōng | to attack; to accuse; to study |
沟 | gōu | ditch; gutter; groove; gully; ravine; CL:道 |
钩 | gōu | to hook; to sew; to crochet; hook; check mark or tick; window catch; arb |
购 | gòu | to buy; to purchase |
股 | gǔ | share; portion; section; part; thigh; classifier for smells, electric currents, spirals etc; whiff |
雇 | gù | to employ; to hire; to rent |
瓜 | guā | melon; gourd; squash |
乖 | guāi | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal |
惯 | guàn | accustomed to; used to; indulge; to spoil (a child) |
灌 | guàn | to irrigate; to pour |
罐 | guàn | can; jar; pot |
广 | guǎng | wide; numerous; to spread; surname Guang |
归 | guī | to go back; to return; to return or give back sth; to resign; to surrender; (of a woman) to get married (old) |
裹 | guǒ | to bind; to wrap; a bundle; a parcel |
咳 | hāi | sound of sighing |
旱 | hàn | drought |
焊 | hàn | to solder; weld by heat; to weld |
耗 | hào | mouse; new; to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander |
呵 | hē | expel breath; my goodness |
核 | hé | to investigate; pit; stone; nucleus; nuclear; to examine; to check; to verify |
狠 | hěn | fierce; very |
横 | héng | horizontal; across; (horizontal character stroke) |
吼 | hǒu | roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage |
护 | hù | to protect |
怀 | huái | bosom; heart; mind; to think of; to harbor in one's mind; to conceive (a child); surname Huai |
唤 | huàn | to call |
患 | huàn | to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry |
荒 | huāng | desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect |
晃 | huàng | to sway; to shake |
毁 | huǐ | defame; to slander; o destroy by fire; a blaze; to destroy; to damage; to ruin |
汇 | huì | class; collection; remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange |
昏 | hūn | muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness |
伙 | huǒ | companion; partner; group; classifier for groups of people; to combine; together; meals (abbr. for 伙食 |
获 | huò | to reap; to harvest; to catch; to obtain; to capture |
机 | jī | machine; engine; opportunity; intention; aircraft; pivot; crucial point; flexible (quick-witted); organic; CL:台; surname Ji |
季 | jì | season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields; surname Ji |
计 | jì | to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge; surname Ji |
佳 | jiā | beautiful; fine; good |
甲 | jiǎ | first of the ten heavenly stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract 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 (old) |
价 | jià | price; value; valence (on an atom) |
假 | jià | vacation |
嫁 | jià | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) |
兼 | jiān | double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time |
煎 | jiān | to pan fry; to sauté |
碱 | jiǎn | base; alkali; soda (chemistry) |
渐 | jiàn | gradual; gradually |
溅 | jiàn | splash |
贱 | jiàn | inexpensive; lowly |
僵 | jiāng | igid; stiff (corpse); rigid; deadlock |
酱 | jiàng | thick paste of fermented soya bean; marinated in soya paste; paste; jam |
浇 | jiāo | to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold |
搅 | jiǎo | to disturb; to annoy; to mix; to stir |
觉 | jiào | a nap; a sleep; CL:场 |
揭 | jiē | to take the lid off; to expose; to unmask |
结 | jiē | to bear fruit; to produce; firm; solid |
截 | jié | a section; to cut off (a length) |
结 | jié | knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel) |
浸 | jìn | to immerse; to soak; to steep; gradually |
惊 | jīng | to start; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm |
精 | jīng | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) |
净 | jìng | clean; completely; only |
境 | jìng | border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory |
竟 | jìng | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed |
揪 | jiū | to seize; to clutch; to hold tight; to grip |
局 | jú | office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc; narrow |
剧 | jù | drama; play; show; severe |
据 | jù | according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy |
聚 | jù | to congregate; to assemble; to mass; to gather together; to amass; to polymerize |
距 | jù | at a distance of; distance; to be apart |
绝 | jué | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means |
觉 | jué | feel; find that; thinking; awake; aware |
均 | jūn | equal; even; all; uniform |
壳 | ké | shell |
客 | kè | customer; visitor; guest |
坑 | kēng | pit; to defraud |
空 | kòng | to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time |
枯 | kū | dried up |
夸 | kuā | to boast; to exaggerate; to praise; see 夸克 |
垮 | kuǎ | to collapse; to break or wear down; to defeat |
筐 | kuāng | basket; CL:只 |
狂 | kuáng | mad; wild; violent |
阔 | kuò | rich; wide; broad |
辣 | là | hot (spicy); pungent |
牢 | láo | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison |
乐 | lè | happy; laugh; cheerful; surname Le |
愣 | lèng | to look distracted; to stare blankly; distracted; blank; (coll.) unexpectedly; rash; rashly |
理 | lǐ | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up |
礼 | lǐ | gift; rite; ceremony; CL:份; propriety; etiquette; courtesy; surname Li |
利 | lì | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit; surname Li |
炼 | liàn | to refine; to smelt |
量 | liàng | capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word |
料 | liào | material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess |
裂 | liè | to split; to crack; to break open; to rend |
淋 | lín | to drain; to drench; to drip; diseases of the bladder |
令 | lìng | to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old) |
溜 | liū | to slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate |
拢 | lǒng | to gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up; to comb (hair) |
搂 | lǒu | to hug; to embrace; to hold in one's arms |
喽 | lou | (final particle equivalent to 了) |
露 | lù | dew; syrup; nectar; outdoors (not under cover); to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose; surname Lu |
驴 | lǘ | donkey |
铝 | lǚ | aluminum (chemistry) |
卵 | luǎn | egg; ovum; spawn |
论 | lùn | by the; per; discuss; theory; to talk (about); to discuss |
锣 | luó | gong; CL:面 |
瞒 | mán | to conceal from; to keep (sb) in the dark |
闷 | mēn | stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly |
闷 | mèn | bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed |
蒙 | méng | to cover; ignorant; to suffer (misfortune); to receive (a favor); to cheat; surname Meng; blind; dim sighted; drizzle; mist |
猛 | měng | ferocious; suddenly; fierce; violent; abrupt |
眯 | mī | to squint |
迷 | mí | bewilder; crazy about; fan; enthusiast; lost; confused |
蜜 | mì | honey |
苗 | miáo | sprout; Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China; surname Miao |
鸣 | míng | to cry (of birds) |
命 | mìng | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc |
抹 | mǒ | to smear; to wipe; to erase; classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc |
墨 | mò | ink stick; China ink; corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead; abbr. for 墨西哥 Mexico; CL:块; surname Mo; abbr. for 墨西哥, Mexico |
末 | mò | tip; end; final stage; latter part; inessential detail; powder; dust; opera role of old man |
墓 | mù | grave; tomb; mausoleum |
幕 | mù | curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play) |
奶 | nǎi | breast; lady; milk |
耐 | nài | capable of enduring; able to tolerate; patient; durable; hardy; resistant |
嫩 | nèn | tender; soft; delicate; light (color); inexperienced; unskilled |
娘 | niáng | mother; young lady |
捏 | niē | to pinch (with one's fingers); to knead; to make up |
拧 | nǐng | mistake; to twist |
怒 | nù | anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous |
噢 | ō | Oh! |
哦 | ò | oh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth) |
趴 | pā | to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Taiwan) percent |
攀 | pān | to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status |
畔 | pàn | bank; field-path |
盼 | pàn | to hope for; to long for; to expect |
抛 | pāo | to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon |
泡 | pào | bubble; foam; blister (i.e. skin bubble); to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to shilly-shally; to hang about; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner) |
配 | pèi | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription) |
棚 | péng | shed; canopy; shack |
拼 | pīn | to piece together; to join together; to stake all; adventurous; at the risk of one's life; to spell |
凭 | píng | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof |
评 | píng | to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal) |
泼 | pō | to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish |
漆 | qī | paint; lacquer; CL:道 |
其 | qí | his; her; its; theirs; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) |
棋 | qí | chess; CL:盘 |
铅 | qiān | lead (chemistry) |
翘 | qiào | to stick up; to rise on one end; to tilt |
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 |
琴 | qín | guqin or zither, cf 古琴; musical instrument in general |
情 | qíng | feeling; emotion; passion; situation |
娶 | qǔ | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) |
饶 | ráo | rich; abundant; exuberant; to add for free; to throw in as bonus; to spare; to forgive; despite; although; surname Rao |
任 | rèn | to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); surname Ren |
容 | róng | to hold; to contain; to allow; appearance; look; countenance |
揉 | róu | to knead; to massage; to rub |
若 | ruò | to seem; like; as; if |
塞 | sāi | to stop up; to squeeze in; to stuff; cork; stopper; Serbia; Serbian; abbr. for 塞尔维亚 |
散 | sǎn | leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose |
散 | sàn | to break up (of couples); to distribute; to let out; to fire or discharge (sb) |
纱 | shā | cotton yarn; muslin |
删 | shān | to delete |
设 | shè | to set up; to arrange; to establish; to found; to display |
驶 | shǐ | to gallop; speedily; to proceed to; to pilot (ship, plane etc); to sail |
守 | shǒu | to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining |
售 | shòu | to sell; to make or carry out (a plan or intrigue etc) |
梳 | shū | a comb; to comb |
束 | shù | to bind; bunch; bundle; classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc; to control; surname Shu |
耍 | shuǎ | to play with; to juggle |
拴 | shuān | to tie up |
霜 | shuāng | frost |
税 | shuì | taxes; duties |
艘 | sōu | classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sao1] |
虽 | suī | although; even though |
锁 | suǒ | to lock up; to lock; CL:把 |
塌 | tā | collapse |
踏 | tà | to tread; to stamp; to step on; to press a pedal; to investigate on the spot |
摊 | tān | to spread out; vendor's stand |
滩 | tān | beach; shoal; CL:片 |
桃 | táo | peach |
特 | tè | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very |
蹄 | tí | hoof; pig's trotters |
厅 | tīng | (reception) hall; office |
筒 | tǒng | tube; cylinder |
吞 | tūn | to swallow; to take |
驮 | tuó | to carry on one's back |
瓦 | wǎ | roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特, watt (loan) |
丸 | wán | pill |
挽 | wǎn | to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to lead (an animal); an elegy (for use in funeral procession); to turn (change direction); to roll up (a scroll); to coil |
网 | wǎng | net; network |
味 | wèi | taste; smell |
温 | wēn | warm; lukewarm; temperature; to warm up; mild; soft; tender; to review; to revise; epidemic; surname Wen |
吻 | wěn | kiss; to kiss; mouth |
嗡 | wēng | onomat. buzz; hum; drone |
卧 | wò | to lie; to crouch |
污 | wū | dirty; filthy; foul; corrupt; to smear; to defile; dirt; filth |
误 | wù | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect |
稀 | xī | rare; uncommon; watery; sparse |
锡 | xī | tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xi2] |
瞎 | xiā | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose |
虾 | xiā | shrimp; prawn |
咸 | xián | salted; salty; stingy; miserly; all; everyone; each; widespread; harmonious; surname Xian |
嫌 | xián | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯, criminal suspect |
险 | xiǎn | danger; dangerous; rugged |
现 | xiàn | appear; present; now; existing; current |
陷 | xiàn | pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect |
箱 | xiāng | box; trunk; chest |
巷 | xiàng | lane; alley |
削 | xiāo | to scrape |
卸 | xiè | to unload; to unhitch; to remove or strip; to get rid of |
凶 | xiōng | vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famineterrible; fearful |
绣 | xiù | to embroider; embroidery |
锈 | xiù | to corrode; to rust |
需 | xū | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need |
须 | xū | beard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel; must; to have to; to wait |
悬 | xuán | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation |
寻 | xún | to search; to look for; to seek |
押 | yā | mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody |
芽 | yá | bud; sprout |
淹 | yān | to flood; to submerge; to drown; to irritate the skin (of liquids); to delay |
烟 | yān | cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根; smoke; mist; vapour; CL:缕[lu:3]; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke |
严 | yán | tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father; surname Yan |
扬 | yáng | to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate |
洋 | yáng | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin |
窑 | yáo | kiln; oven |
姨 | yí | mother's sister; aunt |
乙 | yǐ | second of 10 heavenly stems 十天干; second in order; letter "B" or roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方); ethyl; bent; winding; radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) |
倚 | yǐ | to lean on; rely upon |
易 | yì | easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; surname Yi |
音 | yīn | sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character) |
引 | yǐn | to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters |
迎 | yíng | to welcome; to meet; to face; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties) |
应 | yìng | to answer; to respond; to comply with; to deal or cope with; surname Ying |
哟 | yo | (sentence-final particle expressing exhortation); (syllable filler in a song) |
涌 | yǒng | to bubble up; to rush forth |
游 | yóu | to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel; to swim; surname You |
余 | yú | extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me; I (used by emperor)surname Yu |
愿 | yuàn | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing; sincere |
苑 | yuàn | park; surname Yuan |
越 | yuè | to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more; generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南 |
晕 | yūn | confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out |
砸 | zá | smash; smashed; to fail; to get it wrong |
栽 | zāi | to grow; to plant; to insert; to force on sb; to fall head first |
载 | zài | to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously |
糟 | zāo | dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined |
遭 | zāo | to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident |
凿 | záo | chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel or dig; certain; authentic; irrefutable |
渣 | zhā | slag (in mining or smelting); dregs |
炸 | zhá | to deep fry |
炸 | zhà | to explode |
债 | zhài | debt; CL:笔 |
沾 | zhān | o moisten; to moisten; to be infected by; to receive favors |
盏 | zhǎn | a small cup; classifier for lamps |
帐 | zhàng | covering veil; canopy; screen; tent; variant of 账 |
胀 | zhàng | dropsical; swollen; to swell; to be bloated |
招 | zhāo | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess |
罩 | zhào | cover; fish trap (basket); shade |
遮 | zhē | to cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide; to conceal |
者 | zhě | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this |
镇 | zhèn | composed; small town; to suppress; to press down; to guard; garrison; to cool or chill (food or drinks) |
震 | zhèn | to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder; ☳ |
征 | zhēng | to request; to impose (taxes); to levy (troops); to draft (for military service); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence; journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attack |
整 | zhěng | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; to make sb suffer; to punish; to fix; to give sb a hard time |
挣 | zhèng | to earn; to make (money) |
之 | zhī | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it |
枝 | zhī | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc |
知 | zhī | to know; to be aware |
值 | zhí | value; (to be) worth; to happen to; to be on duty |
制 | zhì | to manufacture; to make; system; to control; to regulat |
致 | zhì | to send; to devote; to deliver; to cause; to convey; fine; delicate |
质 | zhì | character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2] |
肿 | zhǒng | to swell; swelling; swollen |
中 | zhòng | to hit (the mark); to be hit by; to suffer |
粥 | zhōu | congee; gruel; porridge; CL:碗 |
皱 | zhòu | to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease |
助 | zhù | to help; to assist |
铸 | zhù | to cast or found metals |
驻 | zhù | to halt; to stay; to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc) |
专 | zhuān | for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized |
砖 | zhuān | brick |
赚 | zhuàn | to earn; to make a profit |
桩 | zhuāng | stump; stake; pile; classifier for items |
壮 | zhuàng | to strengthen; strong; robust; Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group; Zhuang: Bouxcuengh |
幢 | zhuàng | classifier for buildings; carriage curtain (old) |
子 | zǐ | son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 |
总 | zǒng | always; to assemble; gather; total; overall; head; chief; general; in every case |
租 | zū | to hire; to rent; to charter; to rent out; to lease out; rent; land tax |
足 | zú | foot; to be sufficient; ample |
罪 | zuì | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin |