| | 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 | HSK 1 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera | HSK 1 |
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| | Chinese character / CL: 個｜个 / Japanese: kanji / Korean: hanja / Vietnamese: hán tự | HSK 1 |
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| | point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更 / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items | HSK 1 |
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| | to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid | HSK 2 |
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| | bird / CL: 隻｜只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn | 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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| | 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 | HSK 2 |
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| | pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL: 支, 枝 | HSK 2 |
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| | pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character | HSK 2 |
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| | nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | HSK 3 |
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| | character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | nature / disposition / temperament / character / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character | HSK 4 |
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| | tint; coloring; coloration / (fig.) flavor; character | HSK 4 |
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| | speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message | 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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| | character / intrinsic quality (of a person) / quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | bone / CL: 根, 塊｜块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5] | HSK 4 |
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| | (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / to taste sth; to sample / to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute) | HSK 5 |
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| | one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂, 亻 etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | 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° | HSK 5 |
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| | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句 | HSK 5 |
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| | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting | HSK 5 |
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| | character; temperament; disposition / bad temper / CL: 股 | HSK 5 |
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| | 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 | HSK 6 |
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| | essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality | HSK 6 |
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| | virtue / goodness / morality / ethics / kindness / favor / character / kind | HSK 7-9 |
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| | square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | moral character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊｜块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to conduct oneself / behavior; conduct; personal character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | character; moral strength; integrity / (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | texture / background (texture) / grain / quality / character / disposition | HSK 7-9 |
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| | nobleman / person of noble character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out / to omit (a character when writing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to model; to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | popularity / personality / character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | overall character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | traditional Chinese character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | incorrectly written or mispronounced characters | HSK 7-9 |
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| | spacious and well-lit / open and clear / (of character) optimistic / cheerful / carefree | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 平成 written as a single character | |
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| | "bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118) | |
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| | 大正 written as a single character | |
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| | an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling") | |
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| | (in a soap opera or movie) voice-over that makes a character's unspoken thoughts audible to the audience | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) | |
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| | characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number | |
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| | character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop | |
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| | radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2) | |
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| | vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆｜竖笔 | |
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| | Tarzan (fictional character reared by apes in the jungle) / Taishan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | a manly man / a man of character | |
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| | "cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | variant of 人 / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | character / nature / quality / plain / to pawn / pledge / hostage / to question / Taiwan pr. [zhi2] | |
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| | "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc | |
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| | definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters) | |
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| | turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折 | |
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| | to combine / combination / composite character (i.e. a synonym of 合體字｜合体字) / (of clothes) to be a good fit | |
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| | to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | to mark out / to tag / to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to / to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin) | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights | |
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| | strokes of a Chinese character | |
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| | blank / blank space on a form / space / 囗 (indicating missing or illegible character) | |
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| | two-character surname Ouyang | |
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| | first letter of a word or serial number / first character of a Chinese word / first digit of a number / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable | |
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| | style of writing (literary style) / way of writing a character / spelling | |
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| | to turn a vehicle around / (computing) "carriage return" character / the "Enter" key / to hit the "Enter" key | |
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| | number of written characters; number of words; word count | |
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| | simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體｜繁体 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | one's character / fret (on fingerboard of lute or guitar) | |
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| | innate character / natural disposition / attitude | |
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| | Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima | |
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| | a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑｜鲜卑 nomadic people / two-character surname Yuwen | |
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| | to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號｜注音符号) | |
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| | gold lettering / gold characters | |
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| | (music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram | |
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| | incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text) | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | character (computing) | |
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| | complicated and simple / traditional and simplified form of Chinese characters | |
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| | single Chinese character / word (in a foreign language) | |
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| | evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements | |
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