one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本

writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支,枝) / brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy) / (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork / (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character / (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business / (literary) to write (with a brush or pen)

straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters

to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character

second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting

letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

bird / CL: 隻｜只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

Chinese character(s)

Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句

horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent

speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message

ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊｜块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead

character illustrations in classical Chinese novels

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆｜竖笔

intellectual property (in China, esp. since 2015, often used as an entertainment industry term for a creative work used as the basis of a new product, such as a manga adapted as a tv series, or the image of a cartoon character appearing on merchandise)

"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc

ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character

simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字

five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折

pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph

one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂, 亻 etc)

iteration mark indicating repetition of the preceding character in horizontal writing (rare in modern Chinese)

component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂

abbr. of 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

iteration mark indicating repetition of the preceding character in vertical writing (rare in modern Chinese)

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3), aka 點｜点

commonly used Chinese character

standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters

the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄｜扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters

name of "water" radical 氵 in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85)

traditional Chinese character

single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language)

Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century

component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)

combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc)

to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

five-stroke code, Chinese character input method

Chinese character (Hanzi) / the native script used to write a nation's language

name of "cliff" 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)

four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)

five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

etymology (of a non-Chinese word) / origin of a character

incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text)

literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006

Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima

variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃｜笔划 and 筆畫｜笔画 / exact synonym and homonym written with different characters

to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL:幅,張｜张) / to draw (a line) (variant of 劃｜划) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃｜划) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃｜划)

imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死

simplified Chinese character

radical of a Chinese character

combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound

strokes of a Chinese character

Chinese characters

checked pattern / square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character

to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan

Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文｜说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意｜会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲｜形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注｜转注 (transfer)

"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

phonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component 青 in 清)

(music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram

pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph

loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc

to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯｜音译) (e.g. 超文本, 火車｜火车)

name of "walk slowly" component 夂 in Chinese characters

vertical / to erect / to set upright / vertical stroke in Chinese characters / young servant (old)

"pedestal" component in Chinese characters

original form of a Chinese character

traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone

Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990

complicated and simple / traditional and simplified form of Chinese characters

ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character

⺄ stroke in Chinese characters

pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character)

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

name of "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141) / see also 虍

Jiyun, Chinese rime dictionary with 53,525 single-character entries, published in 11th century

the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty

form word / in Classical Chinese, the first character of phrase having auxiliary grammatical function

name of the lateral "knife" radical 刂 in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in 到, 利, 別｜别 etc

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁

single-character headword (in a dictionary) / first character of a Chinese word / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable

(Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified as a jing 淨｜净 role

ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds

polysyllabic word / Chinese word made up of three or more characters

squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters)

indexing system for Chinese characters in a dictionary

conversion from simple to traditional Chinese characters

oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)

"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

name of "cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14) / see also 冖

乚 stroke in Chinese characters