| | road (CL: 條|条) / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind | HSK 1 |
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| | to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name) | HSK 2 |
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| | straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through | HSK 2 |
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| | 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) | HSK 2 |
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| | to line up | HSK 2 |
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| | a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc | HSK 2 |
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| | to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects | HSK 3 |
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| | thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | HSK 3 |
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| | (bound form) row; line / (bound form) line of business; trade; profession / (bound form) commercial firm / (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row; (Tw) column / classifier for rows or lines | HSK 3 |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | HSK 3 |
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| | to arrange / to line up / file / series / (in data tables) column / (Tw) row | HSK 4 |
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| | to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character | HSK 4 |
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| | the end / end point / finishing line (in a race) / destination / terminus / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | (line of) thought / thinking | HSK 5 |
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| | straight line / sharply (rise or fall) | HSK 5 |
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| | ranks / troops / queue / line / procession / CL: 個|个, 支, 條|条 | HSK 6 |
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| | (electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route | HSK 6 |
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| | to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service) | HSK 6 |
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| | along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge | HSK 6 |
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| | to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations | HSK 6 |
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| | front line / military front / workface / cutting edge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | story line / plot / drama (genre) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line of sight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bore; caliber; diameter; aperture / (fig.) stance (on an issue); version (of events); account; narrative; line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fish (with line and hook); to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | front line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute | HSK 7-9 |
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| | curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way | HSK 7-9 |
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| | front line / forefront | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line of thought; way of thinking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | limits / bounds / dividing line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | railtrack connection / to integrate into sth / to dock / to connect / to be in step with / to bring into line with / to align | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tough / unyielding / hard-line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line (in drawing, calligraphy etc) / the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL: 支, 條|条, 根, 包, 盒) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line | |
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| | subordination / line of command | |
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| | isobar (line of equal pressure) | |
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| | older female cousin via female line | |
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| | to dress (troops) / to line up (to arrange in a straight line) | |
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| | third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet | |
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| | to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs) | |
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| | paternal line / patrilineal | |
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| | woof / line of latitude / parallel | |
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| | electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus | |
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| | a hair's breadth apart / a fine line / a fine distinction | |
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| | men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb) | |
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| | coat / jacket / short and lined coat or robe | |
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| | to fish with a hook and line; to angle | |
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| | marking line / pure / to regulate | |
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| | dividing range / drainage divide / (fig.) dividing line / watershed | |
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| | boundary; dividing line (between roles, spheres or concepts); limits (of propriety, duty etc) / degree; extent | |
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| | ecliptic line / intersection of the ecliptic with the moon's orbit plane | |
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| | to walk in in a line | |
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| | double-layered (quilt); lined (garment) | |
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| | in a row; in a line | |
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| | horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis | |
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| | surname Lai / (Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app | |
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| | gown (lined) | |
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| | railway line / rail track | |
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| | to vote against the party line / to vote contrary to one's promise | |
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| | special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條|条 | |
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| | coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash | |
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| | battle line / battlefront / front | |
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| | red line | |
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| | extension cord / extended line / powerstrip | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | high tension power line | |
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| | defensive line or perimeter / CL: 道 | |
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| | line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) | |
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| | half-way line / median line | |
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| | (of garments) against the skin / to line / lining / to contrast with / to assist financially | |
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| | vanguard / front line / a forward (sports) | |
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| | assembly line / production line | |
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| | main line / trunk line | |
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| | branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story) | |
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| | Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin | |
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| | main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme | |
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| | the rear / far behind the front line | |
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| | informer / snitch / spy / scout / (cosmetics) eye line | |
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| | older male cousin via female line | |
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| | lined jacket / double layered jacket / CL: 件 | |
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| | (sports) to go out of bounds / to go over the line / to qualify for the next round of competition / (Tw) (fig.) to make the grade / to achieve success | |
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| | to delineate / to draw a line / to underline | |
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| | (of a machine) to stop / to shut down / to park a plane / to finish shooting (a TV program etc) / to suspend a phone line / (of a prepaid mobile phone) to be out of credit | |
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| | argument / line of reasoning / thesis / point (of discussion) | |
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| | cousin (via female line) | |
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| | oft-quoted phrase; famous line | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | contour line | |
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| | hard-line / hardcore | |
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| | fishing line | |
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| | the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses | |
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| | younger female cousin via female line | |
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| | line graph / line diagram | |
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| | pressure crease / fig. to toil for sb else's benefit / line ball (i.e. on the line) | |
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