Level 1 Vocabulary List

cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee

restaurant; hotel

room

house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room

to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)

to have a holiday or vacation

to dismiss students at the end of the school day

to fly

airplane

very; really; unusual; extraordinary

(fēn) 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) | (fèn) part; share; ingredient; component

wind; news; style; custom; manner

(gān) old variant of 干 | (Gān) surname Gan | (gān) dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | (gān) variant of 干 | (Gān) surname Gan | (gān) (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 干; (archaic) shield | (gàn) tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed

clean; neat

what are you doing?; what's he up to?

(Gāo) surname Gao | (gāo) high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)

happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood

(gào sù) to press charges; to file a complaint | (gào su) to tell; to inform; to let know

elder brother

older brother

(gē) song; to sing | (gē) variant of 歌

(gě) used in 自个儿 | (gè) (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual | (gè) variant of 个

(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) | (jǐ) to supply; to provide

heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)

worker

to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

(Guān) surname Guan | (guān) mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve

to close (a door); to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)

expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your

(Guó) surname Guo | (guó) country; nation; state; (bound form) national

country; nation; state

abroad; external (affairs); overseas; foreign

(Guō) surname Guo | (guò) to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too- | (guo) (experienced action marker)

(Huán) surname Huan | (hái) still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else | (huán) to pay back; to return

still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or

furthermore; in addition; still; also

child

Chinese language

Chinese character; Japanese: kanji; Korean: hanja; Vietnamese: hán tự

(hǎo) 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 | (hào) to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

(hǎo chī) tasty; delicious | (hào chī) to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous

good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated

pleasant to hear

erhua variant of 好玩; amusing; fun; interesting

(háo) roar; cry | (hào) 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

(hē) to drink; variant of 嗬 | (hè) to shout

(hé) old variant of 和 | (Hé) surname He | (hé) (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [hàn]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese | (hè) to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others | (hú) to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards | (huó) to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huò] | (huò) to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs | (hé) old variant of 和; harmonious

(adverb of degree); quite; very; awfully

(Hòu) surname Hou | (hòu) empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler | (hòu) back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-

the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards