Learned in Dōng Lǎoshī's Intro Mandarin class
Categories: numbers, people, time, food
Parts of speech: verbs, adjectives/adverbs, interrogatives/demonstratives, particles/suffixes/expressions
Additional pages: characters grouped containing similar radicals; HTML entities for pinyin
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shì | be, am, are |
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lái | to come |
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huí | to return |
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zài | to be here/there; to be in/on/at |
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zuò | to sit |
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zhīdào | to know about something, someone |
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yáo | to want (stronger) |
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xiǎng | to think, want to do something |
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hě | to drink |
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jiào | to be called |
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rènshi | to know someone |
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huì | to have the knowledge of; to be able; can |
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néng | to be able to; can |
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shàngkè | to go to class (students & teachers) shàng = to ascend, to go to |
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xiàkè | to dismiss, finish, class |
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jìn | to enter |
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zǒu | to walk |
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qù | to go |
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yóuyǒng | to swim |
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yǒu | to have |
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dé | to have, to get |
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shuō | to speak, to say |
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tīngshuō | to be told (tīng = to listen) |
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gàosu | to tell |
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wèn | to ask |
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huídá | to answer |
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chì | to scold |
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sànbù | to take a walk (bù = step) |
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dǎ | to play |
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wánr | to have fun, to play |
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xíng | to be OK |
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xièxie | to thank |
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kěyǐ | may |
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shēng | to be born; suffix denoting a person |
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shǔ | to belong to, to be born in the year of... |
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chūshēng | to be born |
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chū | to go, to come out |
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jiàn | to see |
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wàng | to die |
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lì | to stand |
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duì | to exchange |
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kāixué | school opens kāi = open |
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kàn | to watch, to look at |
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biǎo | to watch |
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xiě | to write |
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jiào | to teach |
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jìeshào | to introduce |
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zhǎng | to grow |
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bā | to wait |
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xí | to study |
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fùxí | to review |
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liàn | to practice |
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wéi | to act, to do |
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bàn | to do |
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ài | to love |
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gōngzuò | to work; work, job |
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zuò | to do, to be, to make |
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xǐhuan | to like |
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qiàn | to owe |
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zhù | to wish |
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zhùhè | to congratulate |
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cānjiā | to participate, to attend |
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guò | to spend (time); to celebrate (something) |
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chī | to eat |
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chīfàn | to eat (a meal) |
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mǎi | to buy |
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mài | to sell |
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dào | to arrive, to go to |
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kǎo | to bake |
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gēn | with/to follow |
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sòng | to give (as a present) |
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gěi | to give |
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zhǎo (qián) | to give (change) |
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chà | to be short of; to lack |
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xiūxi | to take a rest |
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shuìjiào | to sleep shuì = to sleep |
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qǐchuáng | to get out of bed qǐ = to get up, to rise; chuáng = bed |
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yīnggāi | should, ought to |
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kāichē | to drive a vehicle |
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dǎdī | to hail a taxi |
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chànggē | to sing (a song) |
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tiàowǔ | to dance |
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xīyān | to smoke |
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děng | to wait |
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zhù | to live, to stay |
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pāizhào | to take pictures |
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nián | to read |
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zhàn | to occupy |
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yuànyì | to be willing |
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miǎn | to be excused from |
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yǐ | to use |
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duànliàn | exercise, work out |
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bìng | to get sick; illness |
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kànbìng | to see a doctor |
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chuān | to wear |
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fāyán | to become inflamed |
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guàhào | to register (at a hospital, etc.) |
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zhùyuàn | to be hospitalized |
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fā | to send out |
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zū | to rent |
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dǎsǎo | to clean sǎo = to sweep |
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xǐ | to wash |
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jìe | to be situated between, to interpose |