| | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]) / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) / then (in that case) | HSK 1 |
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| | mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls | HSK 1 |
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| | item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc | HSK 2 |
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| | convenient; suitable / to facilitate; to make things easy / having money to spare / (euphemism) to relieve oneself | HSK 2 |
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| | ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, 片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous | 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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| | eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL: 隻|只, 雙|双 / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots 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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| | how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things? | HSK 2 |
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| | to hold; to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | HSK 3 |
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| | to pay / to hand over to / classifier for pairs or sets of things | HSK 3 |
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| | to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter | HSK 4 |
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| | to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head | HSK 4 |
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| | light / gentle / relaxed / effortless / uncomplicated / to relax / to take things less seriously | HSK 4 |
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| | to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable | HSK 5 |
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| | gaze / insight / foresight / vision / way of looking at things | HSK 5 |
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| | to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage) | HSK 5 |
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| | current trends; the present situation; how things are going | HSK 5 |
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| | thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科 / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions | HSK 6 |
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| | to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across | HSK 6 |
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| | to consult with / to talk things over / agreement | HSK 6 |
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| | secondary / auxiliary / deputy / assistant / vice- / abbr. for 副詞|副词 adverb / classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | HSK 6 |
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| | to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others) | HSK 6 |
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| | to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | work / (lots of) things to do | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to attend simultaneously to two or more things / to balance (career and family, family and education etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | scales (to weigh things) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bad thing; misdeed / to ruin things | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (physics) inertia / (fig.) force of habit / tendency to do things in the accustomed way / habitual | HSK 7-9 |
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| | current custom / current way of doing things | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1 nan2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to unblock / to dredge / to clear the way / to get things flowing / to facilitate / to mediate / to lobby / to explicate (a text) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | power / momentum / tendency / impetus / situation / the look of things | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to raise one and infer three / to deduce many things from one case (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms / to place on a par with / (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn | HSK 7-9 |
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| | things like this (idiom); and so on / and the rest / etc | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as things really are / realistic | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to spoil things; to dampen spirits / to feel deflated; to be dispirited | HSK 7-9 |
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| | some; certain (things) | |
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| | to stay behind to take care of things | |
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| | (of a large number of things) to form an expanse / to cover an area | |
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| | to build up a sequence / a succession of things, each linked to the previous one | |
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| | to add up (numbers) / (fig.) to put together (several things of the same type, e.g. skills) | |
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| | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) | |
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| | modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm / modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way | |
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| | to bribe / to get (luggage) ready / to put in order / to organize things / (baseball) RBI (run batted in) | |
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| | all things / all that exists | |
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| | lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom) / fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance | |
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| | affairs of life / things of the world | |
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| | historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive | |
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| | song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in 套, like houses) | |
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| | wind direction / the way the wind blows / fig. trend / direction of events / how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself) / public opinion (concerning one's actions) / publicity (usually derog.) / limelight | |
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| | lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around | |
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| | (idiom) many little things add up to sth great; many little drops make an ocean | |
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| | to work industriously / to get things done | |
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| | wind direction / the way the wind is blowing / fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones) / how things are developing / course of events | |
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| | (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc) / to mess things up | |
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| | (of things) durable / (of people) sturdy; tough | |
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| | to write about mysterious or supernatural things | |
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| | all things | |
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| | making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract | |
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| | to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head | |
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| | when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction (idiom) | |
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| | tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up | |
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| | all living things | |
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| | to hold in storage / to retain / to harbor (feelings) / to entertain (sentiments) / (of abstract things) to exist / there is | |
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| | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth / to carry things through / I started, so I'll finish. | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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| | to do things right / to use the correct method | |
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| | parallelism (rhetoric) / to arrange things alongside each other | |
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| | (usu. of bad things) to frequently happen; to occur often | |
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| | to upset the apple cart / to disrupt things | |
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| | incorporating diverse things (idiom) / eclectic / all-embracing | |
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| | things have remained the same, but people have changed | |
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| | (various things) such as / such as (the following) | |
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| | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things / naive / doesn't know who's who / no sense of priorities | |
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| | (of a security guard etc) to be on duty, keeping an eye on things / to keep watch | |
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| | mix together / put together (usu. things that do not blend well together) | |
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| | trivial matters / petty things | |
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| | splash / (onom.) for heavy things falling down | |
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| | luck / to create the universe / god (as the creator of all things) / the Creator | |
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| | to distinguish (between different things) / to make distinctions clear | |
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| | to flip over / to turn (a page) / to scroll (an electronic document) / to stir (food in a pot etc) / to move things about / to rummage | |
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| | lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y) | |
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| | things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom) | |
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| | to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others | |
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| | (coll.) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers | |
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| | scene in the foreground; nearby scenery / (photography) a close shot / the present situation; how things stand | |
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| | extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong! | |
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| | normally / as things should be / by rights / to reason things out / logic | |
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| | to add to the fun / to liven things up | |
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| | to take things as they are (idiom) / to leave a situation as it is / to be happy with the status quo | |
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| | perfectly round / (fig.) accommodating / considerate / smooth (way of doing things) | |
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