Level 2 Vocabulary List

(Hǎi) surname Hai | (hǎi) ocean; sea; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous

coast; seaside; seashore; beach

to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person)

(hǎo chǔ) easy to get along with | (hǎo chu) benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hǎo chù]

many; quite a lot; much better

quite a while

good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle

(hǎo shì) good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | (hào shì) to be meddlesome

as if; to seem like

suitable; fitting; appropriate

river

(Hēi) abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 | (hēi) black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing)

blackboard

black

(Hóng) surname Hong | (hóng) red; popular; revolutionary; bonus

red (color); revolutionary

afterwards; later; newly arrived

suddenly; all of a sudden

lake

passport

garden

to draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 划); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 划)

picture; drawing; painting

painter

harm; troubles

bad person; villain

to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)

to welcome; welcome

(Huáng) surname Huang or Hwang | (huáng) yellow; pornographic; to fall through

yellow (color); pornographic

to return to one's home country

to exercise; to move about; to operate; to use connections (personal influence); loose; shaky; active; movable; activity; campaign; maneuver; behavior

maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or

or; possibly; maybe; perhaps

opportunity; chance; occasion

fowl; chicken; (slang) prostitute

level; grade; rank; step (of stairs); classifier: step, level

urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious

plan; project; program; to plan; to map out

computer; (Tw) calculator

(Jiā) Canada (abbr. for 大); surname Jia | (jiā) to add; plus; (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)

to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas; (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on

family; household

head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

(gēi) used in 掰 | (jiǎ) fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose | (jià) vacation | (jiǎ) variant of 假; to borrow

vacation

inspection; to examine; to inspect

to see

seen

item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc