| | thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91 | HSK 2 |
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| | strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條|条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal | HSK 4 |
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| | thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile | HSK 4 |
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| | thin / to lose weight / (of clothing) tight / (of meat) lean / (of land) unproductive | HSK 5 |
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| | slender / lanky / tall and thin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | weak / frail / thin / flimsy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent | |
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| | firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person) | |
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| | thin, tough silk fabric | |
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| | to vanish like smoke in thin air / to disappear | |
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| | to dredge / to clear away obstruction / thin / sparse / scanty / distant (relation) / not close / to neglect / negligent / to present a memorial to the Emperor / commentary / annotation | |
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| | (med.) endothelium / thin skin on the inside of some fruits (e.g. oranges) | |
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| | damask / thin silk | |
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| | thick and thin / coarse and fine / thickness (caliber) / coarseness / quality of work | |
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| | sparse / infrequent / thinly spread | |
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| | thin flake / small piece | |
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| | my limited view (lit. view through a thin tube) / my limited understanding / my opinion (humble) | |
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| | thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4] | |
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| | to waste away / to become thin | |
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| | thin flat cake / pancake / pizza | |
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| | thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3] | |
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| | to slice / slice / thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination) | |
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| | thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague | |
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| | wan and sallow / thin and pallid / haggard / (of plants) withered | |
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| | lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little | |
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| | dwarf bamboo / thin bamboo | |
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| | (dialect) hot pepper (long and thin) / same as 花椒 | |
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| | thin blood / watery blood | |
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| | thin / rarefied | |
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| | thin and weak | |
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| | a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard | |
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| | humble / meager / thin / to despise | |
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| | crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker | |
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| | thin plates of metal | |
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| | lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. to be extremely cautious / to be skating on thin ice | |
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| | thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc) | |
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| | as thin as a match / emaciated (idiom) | |
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| | sheet / thin film | |
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| | lit. to rush at thin air / fig. to miss one's aim / to have nothing to show for one's troubles | |
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| | lean / thin / spare | |
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| | water gruel / thin porridge | |
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| | (of porridge etc) to become watery / (dialect) to thin (porridge etc) by adding water etc | |
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| | thin / emaciated / worn / tired | |
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| | thinning out seedlings | |
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| | thin person | |
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| | thin outside skin of bamboo | |
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| | bamboo with thin / wide leaves | |
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| | rowboat; small boat / oar; paddle / thin rod used to control a curtain etc | |
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| | thin / light / flagging / faint | |
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| | the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip | |
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| | thin / lean / slender / skinny / (of cheeks) hollow | |
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| | leather shoes / leather belt / thin bamboo strips | |
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| | short / shallow / thin plate | |
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| | to be balding / to be thinning on top | |
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| | (dialect) to bend (a long and thin object) | |
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| | egg pancake (thin pancake rolled up with omelet inside, popular in Taiwan as a breakfast dish) | |
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| | to thin out gradually / to become fainter and fainter | |
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| | thin / emaciated | |
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| | popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal | |
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| | pressed tofu; dried tofu (ingredient of Chinese cuisine made by pressing, drying and flavoring tofu to produce a firm chewy block, typically cut into thin strips when preparing a dish) | |
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| | slide examination / microscopic examination of thin section of specimen as part of biopsy | |
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| | to go through thick and thin together (idiom) | |
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| | thinning scissors | |
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| | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) | |
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| | hot pot / a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces | |
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| | sparse / thin / distant | |
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| | thin / scrawny / emaciated | |
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| | to blanch (thin slices of vegetables, fish etc) | |
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| | to stick together through thick and thin (idiom) | |
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| | thin / diluted | |
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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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| | long and thin / slender | |
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| | to go through thick and thin (idiom) | |
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| | plain thin silk / slow / unadorned | |
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| | thin-skinned / sensitive | |
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| | foliated / striated into thin leaves | |
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| | thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella | |
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| | thin lens (optics) | |
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| | thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty / destitute | |
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| | axon (long thin axis of nerve cell) | |
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| | lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued | |
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| | enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇 | |
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| | thin foil to make paper money for the dead | |
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| | the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom) / to clear up / to vanish into thin air | |
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| | one's physique (tall or short, thin or fat) / stature | |
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| | misua; wheat vermicelli (very thin variety of wheat noodles used esp. in Fujian) | |
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