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
hěn | very | ||
yě | too, also | ||
dōu | both, all | ||
máng | busy | ||
nán | male | ||
nǚ | female | ||
gāoxìng | happy, pleased (gāo = tall) |
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piàoliang | beautiful, nice | ||
kuáilé | happy | ||
shēng | new | ||
wǎn | late | ||
zǎo | early | ||
hǎo | good/fine | ||
yǒuyìsi | interesting | ||
bàoqiàn | sorry | ||
dà | big | ||
xiǎo | small | ||
bái | white | ||
qīng | blue, green | ||
hóng | red | ||
sī | private | ||
wài | foreign, outside | ||
zhǐ | only | ||
Zhōngwén | Chinese (written language) | ||
Hànyǔ | Chinese (language) | ||
Hànzì | Chinese character | ||
Yīngwén | English | ||
měi | beautiful | ||
kě'ài | cute, lovely | ||
gǎnmào | cold (also, to have a cold) | ||
quán | whole | ||
zhuān | special | ||
shàng | over, top, up | ||
xià | down | ||
yígòng | altogether | ||
hái | in addition, still | ||
kǒngpà | afraid that... | ||
yòu | again | ||
zhēn | real, really | ||
měi | every, each | ||
duō | many, much | ||
shǎo | few, less | ||
yǒudiǎnr | somewhat, a bit | ||
qián | ago | ||
chángchang | often | ||
wèi | not yet | ||
tài | too, extremely | ||
shàng | above, last | ||
xià | below, next | ||
duì | right, correct | ||
nán | difficult | ||
róngyì | easy | ||
yǒumíng | famous | ||
píng | flat | ||
lěng | cold (adj. & noun) | ||
téng | painful, sore | ||
liáng | good | ||
gǔ | ancient | ||
shūfu | comfortable | ||
guì | expensive | ||
piányi | inexpensive | ||
zāng | dirty | ||
kuài | fast | ||
lǐ | inside | ||
yìqǐ | together | ||
wèi | not yet | ||
bù | not | ||
méi | not (use with yǒu) |