| 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 |
