| | to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner) | HSK 1 |
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| | to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over / to make friends / (of lines) to intersect / variant of 跤 | HSK 2 |
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| | to make friends / (dialect) to start an affair with sb | HSK 2 |
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| | to be on good terms / to be close friends / striving for self-improvement | HSK 6 |
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| | friends and relatives | HSK 7-9 |
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| | friends and family / kith and kin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make friends | |
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| | relatives and friends | |
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| | to cross over (e.g. traffic) / to intersect / to make friends | |
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| | a friend made in hospital or people who become friends in hospital / wardmate | |
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| | to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake | |
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| | to make friends / to meet friends / member of the same organization | |
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| | to crush together (in a crowd) / to make friends / to check (accounts) | |
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| | lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom) / fig. innocent children's games / childhood sweethearts / a couple who grew up as childhood friends | |
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| | best friends / inseparable sidekick / diehard followers | |
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| | comrades / friends / companions | |
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| | as before / as usual / (to be) like old friends | |
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| | lit. people rebelling and friends deserting (idiom) / fig. to find oneself utterly isolated | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | to seek new friends through personal ads, dating apps etc | |
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| | guests / invited friends | |
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| | our peasant friends (political term used in the early years of the Old Democratic Revolution, 1840-1919) / (Tw) (coll.) farmer | |
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| | (of relatives or friends) to live far apart from each other | |
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| | (of friends or partners) to share both the honor and the disgrace (idiom) | |
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| | to have friendly relationships / circle of friends | |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道, 雞犬升天|一人得道, 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | to uphold justice / to be loyal (to one's friends) / to stick by | |
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| | surrounded by distinguished friends (idiom); in company | |
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| | old friends | |
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| | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on | |
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| | friends despite the difference in age | |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers | |
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| | to be close friends | |
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| | red-dyed egg, traditionally given to friends and relatives one month after the birth of one's child | |
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| | old friends | |
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| | lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives) | |
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| | to help the needy for justice (idiom); to be loyal to one's friends and generous to the needy | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | to call on friends and relations (idiom) | |
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| | to gather one's friends / to band together | |
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| | old friends and relatives | |
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| | lit. friends for a day (idiom) / fig. casual acquaintance | |
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| | to get things done relying on others (idiom); with a little help from his friends | |
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| | friends; cronies | |
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| | (dialect) close childhood friend whom one grew up with / a couple who grew up as childhood friends | |
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| | relatives and old friends | |
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| | to swindle associates, friends or relatives | |
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| | to make friends / to form friendship | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | true sentiments are seen in hard times (idiom) / you see who your true friends are when you go through tough times together / you see who your true friends are when you are in difficulties | |
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| | to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family | |
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| | to show brotherly love for friends | |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship / no discord, no concord | |
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| | to visit friends to thank them after a funeral | |
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| | not to hold anything back (idiom) / (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything | |
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| | paying more attention to a lover than friends (idiom) / to value sex over friendship | |
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| | (idiom) favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (idiom) (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates | |
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| | the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom) | |
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| | (coll.) very close male friends | |
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| | Friends of Nature (Chinese environmental NGO) | |
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| | don't forget your friends when you become rich | |
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| | (slang, jocular, neologism c. 2006, used esp. in relation to public figures) the things you and your friends get up to (misbehavior, scandals etc) leave me shaking my head | |
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| | lit. water that is too clean holds no fish (idiom) / fig. one who is too severe has no friends | |
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| | don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship | |
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| | one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | (idiom) water that is too clear has no fish, and one who is too severe has no friends | |
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| | a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down | |
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| | (slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends | |
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| | the Society of Friends / the Quakers | |
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| | the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates | |
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| | to visit one's friends and relatives | |
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| | to make friends again / to renew old cordial relations | |
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| | lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise) | |
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| | unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste | |
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| | one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) | |
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| | to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory) | |
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| | singles seeking marriage partners / in-laws and friends | |
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| | relatives and friends | |
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| | do not neglect old friends | |
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| | to rely on the help of relatives and friends | |
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| | without relatives or friends | |
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| | (literary) father's friends (of the same generation) | |
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| | (of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things | |
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| | to make friends with | |
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| | virtuous companions and worthy friends | |
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| | to neglect one's friends when smitten with a new love | |
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| | to visit friends and relations (idiom) | |
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| | to be loyal (to one's friends) / to value loyalty | |
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| | Society of Friends / the Quakers | |
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