Level 1 Vocabulary List

subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination

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mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls

lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant

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)

to arrive; to come

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough

old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents

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(le) (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | (liǎo) to finish; to achieve; variant of 了; to understand clearly | (liǎo) (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly | (liào) unofficial variant of 瞭

(lěi) to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated | (lèi) tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard | (Léi) surname Lei | (léi) rope; to bind together; to twist around

(Lěng) surname Leng | (lěng) cold

(lǐ) variant of 里 | (lǐ) lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 里 | (Lǐ) Li (surname) | (lǐ) 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

inside

two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old)

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

six; 6

(Lóu) surname Lou | (lóu) house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor

upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread

downstairs

(Lù) surname Lu | (lù) road; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind

crossing; intersection (of roads)

on the road; on a journey; road surface

ma; mom; mother

mama; mommy; mother

street; road

at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force)

(má) (coll.) what? | (mǎ) used in 吗啡 | (ma) (question particle for "yes-no" questions)

to buy; to purchase

slow

busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush

(Máo) surname Mao | (máo) hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分)

(méi) (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not | (mò) drowned; to end; to die; to inundate

it doesn't matter

nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind

to have spare time; free from work; it's not important; it's nothing; never mind

haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be

younger sister

younger sister; young woman

(Mén) surname Men | (mén) gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

doorway; gate

ticket (for theater, cinema etc)

plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals

(cooked) rice

bread

erhua variant of 面条; noodles

name (of a person or thing)

clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize