HSK 1 Vocabulary List 词汇表
The complete official HSK 1 word list from the HSK exam syllabus (《HSK 考试大纲》, 2025-11): 300 words with tone-marked pinyin, part of speech, and English meanings, built on 246 characters. Every word links to its word page, and every character links to a stroke-order page.
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Required characters
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2025 syllabus
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The 246 characters of HSK 1
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Word list
All 300 HSK 1 words
# 3
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 爱 | ài | v. | to love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen) |
| 儿子 | ér | n. | son |
| 二 | èr | num. | two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 八 | bā | num. | eight; 8 |
| 爸爸 | bà | n. | (coll.) father; dad |
| 吧 | ba | part. | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume. |
| 白天 | bái | n. | daytime; during the day; day |
| 百 | bǎi | num. | hundred; numerous; all kinds of |
| 半 | bàn | num. / adv. | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
| 包子 | bāo | n. | bao (steamed stuffed bun) |
| 杯子 | bēi | n. | cup; glass |
| 本 | běn | mw. | root; stem; origin; source; this; the current; original; inherent; originally; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc |
| 边 | biān | n. / suf. | side; edge; margin; border; boundary; simultaneously |
| 病 | bìng | n. / v. | illness; disease; to fall ill; defect |
| 不 | bù | adv. | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- |
| 不客气 | bú kè | — | you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt |
| 不要 | búyào | adv. | don't!; must not |
c 8
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 菜 | cài | n. | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor |
| 茶 | chá | n. | tea; tea plant |
| 唱 | chàng | v. | to sing; to call loudly; to chant |
| 超市 | chāoshì | n. | supermarket (abbr. for 超级市场) |
| 车 | chē | n. | car; vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159 |
| 吃 | chī | v. | variant of 吃 |
| 出租车 | chūzūchē | n. | taxi; (Tw) rental car |
| 穿 | chuān | v. | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 打电话 | dǎ diàn | — | to make a telephone call |
| 大 | dà | adj. | big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 姐); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大家 | dà | pron. | everyone; influential family; great expert |
| 大学 | dà | n. | university; college |
| 大学生 | dà | n. | university student; college student |
| 到 | dào | v. | to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough |
| 的 | de | part. | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs |
| 第 | dì | pref. | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just |
| 弟弟 | dì | n. | younger brother |
| 点 | diǎn | mw. / n. | point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order (food in a restaurant); to touch briefly; to hint; to light; to ignite; to pour a liquid drop by drop; (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更; dot stroke in Chinese characters; classifier for items |
| 店 | diàn | n. | inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store |
| 电话 | diàn | n. | telephone; phone call; phone number |
| 电脑 | diànnǎo | n. | computer |
| 电视 | diànshì | n. | television; TV |
| 电影 | diànyǐng | n. | movie; film |
| 电影院 | diànyǐng | n. | cinema; movie theater |
| 东西 | dōng | n. | thing; stuff; person |
| 都 | dōu | adv. | all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all |
| 读 | dú | v. | to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce |
| 读书 | dúshū | v. | to read a book; to study; to attend school |
| 对 | duì | adj. / prep. / v. / mw. | right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair |
| 对不起 | duì | v. | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint |
| 多 | duō | adj. / v. / pron. / num. / adv. | many; much; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duó]); (bound form) multi-; poly- |
| 多少 | duō | pron. | how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number? |
f 7
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 饭 | fàn | n. | cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee |
| 饭店 | fàn | n. | restaurant; hotel |
| 房间 | fáng | n. | room |
| 非常 | fēicháng | adv. | very; really; unusual; extraordinary |
| 飞机 | fēijī | n. | airplane |
| 分 | fēn | mw. / v. / n. | to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad); (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 局); fraction; one tenth (of certain units); unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm; minute (unit of time); minute (angular measurement unit); a point (in sports or games); 0.01 yuan (unit of money) |
| 分钟 | fēnzhōng | mw. | minute |
g 10
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 高兴 | gāoxìng | adj. | happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood |
| 歌 | gē | n. | variant of 歌 |
| 哥哥 | gē | n. | older brother |
| 个 | gè | mw. | variant of 个 |
| 给 | gěi | v. / prep. | 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) |
| 公司 | gōngsī | n. | company; firm; corporation |
| 工作 | gōng | v. / n. | to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task |
| 狗 | gǒu | n. | dog |
| 贵 | guì | adj. | expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your |
| 国 | guó | n. | country; nation; state; (bound form) national |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 还 | hái | adv. | still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else |
| 孩子 | hái | n. | child |
| 汉语 | Hànyǔ | n. | Chinese language |
| 汉字 | Hànzì | n. | Chinese character; Japanese: kanji; Korean: hanja; Vietnamese: hán tự |
| 好 | hǎo | adj. / adv. / v. | good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello |
| 好吃 | hǎochī | adj. | tasty; delicious |
| 好看 | hǎokàn | adj. | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated |
| 好听 | hǎotīng | adj. | pleasant to hear |
| 好玩儿 | hǎowánr | adj. | erhua variant of 好玩; amusing; fun; interesting |
| 号 | hào | n. / mw. | 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 |
| 喝 | hē | v. | to drink; variant of 嗬 |
| 和 | hé | prep. / conj. | old variant of 和; harmonious |
| 很 | hěn | adv. | (adverb of degree); quite; very; awfully |
| 后 | hòu | n. | back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post- |
| 回 | huí | v. / mw. | variant of 回 |
| 会 | huì | v. | can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [huǐ]) |
| 火车 | huǒchē | n. | train |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 鸡蛋 | jīdàn | n. | (chicken) egg; hen's egg |
| 几 | jǐ | pron. / num. | how much; how many; several; a few |
| 家 | jiā | n. / mw. / suf. | home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian |
| 家人 | jiārén | n. | family member; (old) servant |
| 见 | jiàn | v. | to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view |
| 件 | jiàn | mw. | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc |
| 饺子 | jiǎo | n. | dumpling; pot-sticker |
| 叫 | jiào | v. / prep. | variant of 叫 |
| 姐姐 | jiě | n. | older sister |
| 今年 | jīn | n. | this year |
| 今天 | jīn | n. | today; at the present; now |
| 九 | jiǔ | num. | nine; 9 |
| 觉得 | jué | v. | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |
k 9
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 开 | kāi | v. | to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文; abbr. for 开本, book format |
| 开车 | kāichē | v. | to drive a car |
| 看 | kàn | v. | to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for |
| 看病 | kànbìng | v. | to visit a doctor; to see a patient |
| 看见 | kàn | v. | to see; to catch sight of |
| 可以 | kěyǐ | v. / adj. | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good |
| 课 | kè | n. | subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination |
| 口 | kǒu | n. / mw. | mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls |
| 块 | kuài | mw. | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 来 | lái | v. | to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来); ever since (as in 自古以来); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) |
| 老师 | lǎoshī | n. | teacher |
| 了 | le | part. | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) |
| 冷 | lěng | adj. | cold |
| 里 | lǐ | n. | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 镇 and neighborhood 邻 levels |
| 两 | liǎng | num. | two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) |
| 零 | líng | num. | 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 |
| 六 | liù | num. | six; 6 |
m 17
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 妈妈 | mā | n. | mama; mommy; mother |
| 吗 | ma | part. | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |
| 买 | mǎi | v. | to buy; to purchase |
| 卖 | mài | v. | to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt |
| 忙 | máng | adj. / v. | busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush |
| 猫 | māo | n. | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem |
| 没关系 | méi guān | — | it doesn't matter |
| 没事 | méishì | v. | it's not important |
| 没有 | méiyǒu | v. / adv. | haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be |
| 妹妹 | mèi | n. | younger sister; young woman |
| 们 | men | suf. | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 米饭 | mǐfàn | n. | (cooked) rice |
| 面包 | miànbāo | n. | bread |
| 面条儿 | miàn | n. | erhua variant of 面条; noodles |
| 明年 | míng | n. | next year |
| 明天 | míng | n. | tomorrow |
| 名字 | míng | n. | name (of a person or thing) |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 哪 | nǎ | pron. | how; which |
| 哪个 | nǎ | pron. | which |
| 哪里 | nǎlǐ | pron. | where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment |
| 哪儿 | nǎr | pron. | where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? |
| 哪些 | nǎ | pron. | which ones?; who?; what? |
| 那 | nà | pron. / conj. | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) |
| 那边 | nà | pron. | over there; yonder |
| 那个 | nà | pron. | that one |
| 那里 | nàlǐ | pron. | there; that place |
| 那儿 | nàr | pron. | there |
| 那些 | nà | pron. | those |
| 男 | nán | adj. | male; Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 位 |
| 男朋友 | nánpéng | n. | boyfriend |
| 呢 | ne | part. | particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"); particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"); particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"); (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action; particle indicating strong affirmation |
| 能 | néng | v. | can; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy |
| 你 | nǐ | pron. | you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.) |
| 你好 | nǐ hǎo | — | hello; hi |
| 你们 | nǐ | pron. | you (plural) |
| 年 | nián | n. / mw. | grain; harvest (old); variant of 年 |
| 您 | nín | pron. | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你) |
| 牛奶 | niúnǎi | n. | cow's milk |
| 女 | nǚ | adj. | female; woman; daughter |
| 女儿 | nǚ’ér | n. | daughter |
| 女朋友 | nǚpéng | n. | girlfriend |
| 女士 | nǚshì | n. | lady; madam; Miss; Ms |
p 4
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 朋友 | péng | n. | friend |
| 便宜 | pián | adj. | cheap; inexpensive; small advantages; to let sb off lightly |
| 漂亮 | piào | adj. | pretty; beautiful |
| 苹果 | píng | n. | apple |
q 9
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 七 | qī | num. | seven; 7 |
| 起床 | qǐ | v. | to get out of bed; to get up |
| 千 | qiān | num. | see 秋千 |
| 前 | qián | n. | front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly |
| 钱 | qián | n. | coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两 |
| 请 | qǐng | v. | to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request |
| 请问 | qǐngwèn | v. | Excuse me, may I ask...? |
| 去 | qù | v. | to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) |
| 去年 | qù | n. | last year |
r 4
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 热 | rè | adj. | to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent |
| 人 | rén | n. | person; people |
| 认识 | rèn | v. | to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition |
| 日 | rì | mw. / n. | sun; day; date, day of the month |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 三 | sān | num. | three; 3 |
| 商店 | shāng | n. | store; shop |
| 上 | shàng | n. / v. | (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above |
| 上班 | shàngbān | v. | to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office |
| 上课 | shàngkè | v. | to go to class; to attend class; to go to teach a class |
| 上午 | shàngwǔ | n. | morning |
| 上学 | shàng | v. | to go to school; to attend school |
| 少 | shǎo | adj. / v. | few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom |
| 谁 | shéi/shuí | pron. | who; also pr. [shuí] |
| 什么 | shén | pron. | what?; something; anything |
| 生病 | shēngbìng | v. | to fall ill |
| 十 | shí | num. | ten; 10 |
| 时候 | shí | n. | time; length of time; moment; period |
| 时间 | shí | n. | time; period |
| 事 | shì | n. | matter; thing; item; work; affair |
| 是 | shì | v. | variant of 是 |
| 手机 | shǒujī | n. | cell phone; mobile phone |
| 书 | shū | n. | book; letter; document; to write |
| 书店 | shū | n. | bookstore |
| 水 | shuǐ | n. | water; river; liquid; beverage; additional charges or income; (of clothes) classifier for number of washes |
| 水果 | shuǐ | n. | fruit |
| 睡 | shuì | v. | to sleep; to lie down |
| 睡觉 | shuì | v. | to go to bed; to sleep |
| 说 | shuō | v. | variant of 说 |
| 说话 | shuō | v. | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word |
| 四 | sì | num. | four; 4 |
| 岁 | suì | mw. | classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests) |
t 12
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 他 | tā | pron. | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used as a meaningless mock object); (literary) other |
| 它 | tā | pron. | it |
| 她 | tā | pron. | she |
| 他们 | tā | pron. | they |
| 它们 | tā | pron. | they (for inanimate objects) |
| 她们 | tā | pron. | they; them (for females) |
| 太 | tài | adv. | highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely |
| 天 | tiān | n. / mw. | day; sky; heaven |
| 天气 | tiānqì | n. | weather |
| 听 | tīng | v. | to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [tìng]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [tìng]) |
| 听见 | tīng | v. | to hear |
| 同学 | tóng | n. | to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate |
w 13
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 外 | wài | n. | outside; in addition; foreign; external |
| 外边 | wài | n. | outside; outer surface; abroad; place other than one's home |
| 玩 | wán | v. | variant of 玩; Taiwan pr. [wàn] |
| 晚 | wǎn | adj. | evening; night; late |
| 晚饭 | wǎnfàn | n. | evening meal; dinner; supper |
| 晚上 | wǎn | n. | evening; night; in the evening |
| 喂 | wèi | interj. | to feed |
| 问 | wèn | v. | to ask; to inquire |
| 问题 | wèntí | n. | question; problem; issue; topic |
| 我 | wǒ | pron. | I; me; my |
| 我们 | wǒ | pron. | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 五 | wǔ | num. | five; 5 |
| 午饭 | wǔfàn | n. | lunch |
x 27
| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 喜欢 | xǐ | v. | to like; to be fond of |
| 下 | xià | n. / v. / mw. | down; downwards; below; lower; later; next (week etc); second (of two parts); to decline; to go down; to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc); measure word to show the frequency of an action |
| 下雨 | xià yǔ | — | to rain |
| 下班 | xiàbān | v. | to finish work; to get off work |
| 下课 | xiàkè | v. | to finish class; to get out of class; (fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed; to be fired |
| 下午 | xiàwǔ | n. | afternoon; p.m. |
| 先生 | xiān | n. | teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor |
| 现在 | xiànzài | n. | now; at present; at the moment; modern; current; nowadays |
| 想 | xiǎng | v. | to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) |
| 小 | xiǎo | adj. / pref. | small; tiny; few; young |
| 小朋友 | xiǎopéngyǒu | n. | child |
| 小时 | xiǎoshí | n. | hour |
| 小学 | xiǎo | n. | elementary school; primary school |
| 小学生 | xiǎo | n. | primary school student; schoolchild; (fig.) beginner |
| 些 | xiē | mw. | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several |
| 写 | xiě | v. | to write |
| 谢谢 | xiè | v. | to thank; thanks; thank you |
| 新 | xīn | adj. | new; newly; meso- (chemistry) |
| 星期 | xīngqī | n. | week; day of the week; Sunday |
| 星期日 | xīngqīrì | n. | Sunday |
| 星期天 | xīngqī | n. | Sunday |
| 休息 | xiū | v. | rest; to rest |
| 学 | xué | v. | to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology |
| 学生 | xuéshēng | n. | student; schoolchild |
| 学习 | xuéxí | v. | to learn; to study |
| 学校 | xué | n. | school |
| 雪 | xuě | n. | snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc) |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 要 | yào | v. | to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 是); (bound form) important |
| 也 | yě | adv. | (adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊 |
| 一 | yī | num. | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 衣服 | yī | n. | clothes |
| 医生 | yīshēng | n. | doctor |
| 医院 | yī | n. | hospital |
| 一半 | yíbàn | num. | half |
| 一下 | yí | num. / adv. | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try) |
| 椅子 | yǐ | n. | chair |
| 一点儿 | yì | num. | erhua variant of 一点; a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more |
| 一些 | yì | num. | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 有 | yǒu | v. | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) |
| 有的 | yǒu | pron. | (there are) some (who are...); some (exist) |
| 有点儿 | yǒu | adv. | slightly; a little; somewhat |
| 有些 | yǒu | pron. / adv. | some; somewhat |
| 雨 | yǔ | n. | rain |
| 元 | yuán | mw. | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon |
| 月 | yuè | n. | moon; month; monthly |
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 再 | zài | adv. | again; once more; re-; second; another; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) |
| 在 | zài | v. / prep. / adv. | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) |
| 再见 | zài | v. | goodbye; see you again later |
| 早 | zǎo | adj. | early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely |
| 早饭 | zǎofàn | n. | breakfast |
| 早上 | zǎo | n. | early morning |
| 怎么 | zěn | pron. | variant of 怎么 |
| 怎么样 | zěn | pron. | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? |
| 找 | zhǎo | v. | to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change |
| 这 | zhè | pron. | (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhèi], esp. in Beijing) |
| 这边 | zhè | pron. | this side; here |
| 这个 | zhè | pron. | (pronoun) this |
| 这里 | zhèlǐ | pron. | here |
| 这儿 | zhèr | pron. | here |
| 这些 | zhè | pron. | these |
| 真 | zhēn | adv. / adj. | really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine |
| 正在 | zhèngzài | adv. | just at (that time); right in (that place); right in the middle of (doing sth) |
| 只 | zhī | mw. | classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc |
| 知道 | zhīdào | v. | to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhī dao] |
| 中国 | Zhōng | n. | China |
| 中文 | Zhōngwén | n. | Chinese language |
| 中午 | zhōngwǔ | n. | noon; midday |
| 中学 | zhōng | n. | middle school |
| 中学生 | zhōng | n. | middle-school student; high school student |
| 住 | zhù | v. | to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) |
| 桌子 | zhuō | n. | table; desk |
| 字 | zì | n. | letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China |
| 昨天 | zuó | n. | yesterday |
| 坐 | zuò | v. | to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座 |
| 做 | zuò | v. | to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner) |
| 做饭 | zuò fàn | — | to prepare a meal; to cook |