| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | next time | HSK 1 |
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| | below / under / next / the following / also pr. [xia4 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | next / secondly | HSK 3 |
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| | next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time | HSK 1 |
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| | next year | HSK 1 |
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| | next week | HSK 2 |
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| | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来) | HSK 1 |
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| | the year after next | HSK 3 |
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| | to accept / to take / next / following | HSK 2 |
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| | the next generation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | next month | HSK 4 |
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| | to enter the next grade school | HSK 6 |
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| | next year / the coming year | HSK 7-9 |
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| | next door / neighbor | HSK 5 |
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| | next period (week, month or quarter etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the next stop (of a bus etc) | |
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| | to pass on experience (to the next generation) | |
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| | the next one | |
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| | (in) the past few days / recently / (within) the next few days | HSK 6 |
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| | to be right next to / to lean closely against | |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | (biology) alternation of generations / (fig.) generational succession; passing of the torch from one generation to the next | |
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| | any minute now; in next to no time / at every minute; constantly | |
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| | next week | |
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| | bright / opposite: dark 暗 / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods | |
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| | next | |
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| | the following day; next day | |
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| | up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) (gaming) to progress to the next level / to level up | |
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| | second (of two parts) / next (week etc) / subsequent / the following | |
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| | next month | |
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| | to cut into; to penetrate deeply into (a topic, area etc) / (sports) (soccer etc) to penetrate (the defenses of the opposing team) / (cinema) to cut (to the next scene) | |
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| | next / later / after that | HSK 7-9 |
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| | this or that very day / in the next few days | |
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| | to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail | |
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| | lit. the next mountain looks taller (idiom); fig. not satisfied with one's current position / the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence | |
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| | the next step | |
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| | next office holder / next to serve | |
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| | to hand over to the next workshift | |
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| | not knowing what to do next / at a loose end | |
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| | next day | |
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| | to speak one minute and be quiet the next | |
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| | see you next time | |
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| | to be right next to / close neighbor | |
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| | people who spend all their monthly earnings before the next payday | |
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| | within the next few days / in a few days time | |
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| | far-flung realms as next door (idiom) / close in spirit although far away | |
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| | What a scandal! / Whatever next? | |
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| | next day / the morrow | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave | |
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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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| | next week | |
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| | next life | |
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| | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
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| | after this / afterwards / next | |
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| | next of kin / closely related | |
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| | worn next to the skin / close-fitting / personal (servant etc) | |
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| | neighbors / next-door neighbors / related work units / colleagues doing related work | |
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| | next page | |
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| | the next life | |
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| | next page | |
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| | player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home | |
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| | at a loss / confused / not know what to do next | |
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| | adjacent / next to | |
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| | to hand over (responsibility for sth) to (sb) / to leave it to (sb else to take charge of the next stage of a process) | |
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| | second / number two / next / secondary | |
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| | neighbor / person next door | |
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| | future days / (literary) the next day / (old) past days | |
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| | next-door neighbor | |
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| | to be buried with or next to dead person (of deceased's partner, or of funerary objects) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the following year; next year | |
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| | next office holder / next to serve | |
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| | (literary) two mountains standing next to each other | |
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| | (literary) next-door neighbor / near; next to / Taiwan pr. [bi4lin2] | |
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| | and then (what follows next) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | next chapter / next time | |
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| | second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3] | |
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| | a tiny bit / very little / next to nothing (idiom) | |
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| | to settle for second best / the next best thing | |
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| | next day / the morrow | |
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| | Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha | |
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| | return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom) | |
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| | to bathe the body and cleanse virtue (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation / cleanliness is next to godliness | |
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| | in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place | |
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| | to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job | |
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| | the next day / on alternate days | |
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| | next to the aisle / aisle (seat on aircraft) | |
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| | three years from now / year after year after next year | |
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| | next of kin / immediate dependant | |
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| | the following year / the next year | |
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| | one moment ..., (the next ...) / leading foot (in walking) | |
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| | to listen to the next chapter for an explanation | |
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| | to pass to the next generation | |
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| | a step up / to rise to the next level | |
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| | (idiom) to come first in triennial palace examinations (refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand); to be the champion; to be the very best in any field | |
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| | to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation) / to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors) | |
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| | next one (in order) | |
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| | lit. from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom) / fig. to go to the next level; to attain a higher level | |
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