| | (bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above | HSK 1 |
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| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first; original; primary / (bound form) basic; fundamental / (bound form) constituent; part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument; variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon | HSK 1 |
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| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out | HSK 2 |
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| | at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic | HSK 3 |
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| | row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column | HSK 3 |
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| | parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear | HSK 3 |
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| | sofa (loanword) / CL: 條｜条, 張｜张 / (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post | HSK 3 |
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| | first (of all) / in the first place | HSK 3 |
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| | original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course | HSK 3 |
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| | fine / good / first-rate | HSK 4 |
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| | first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally | HSK 4 |
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| | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | HSK 4 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | HSK 5 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | first / original / primitive / original (document etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale | HSK 6 |
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| | to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time) | HSK 6 |
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| | to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child | HSK 6 |
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| | first / first time / for the first time | HSK 6 |
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| | to give emergency treatment / first aid | HSK 6 |
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| | to initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to gain first-hand knowledge of sth / to experience for oneself / knowledge / experience / insight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first rate / top rank / number one | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節｜春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first signs / development (of a situation) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take the lead; to be the first; to set an example | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the first light of dawn / (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first-hand | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to open a business / first transaction of a business day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to witness / to see at first hand / to see with one's own eyes | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | originally; at first; at the outset | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first third of a month | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first batch | HSK 7-9 |
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| | striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another | HSK 7-9 |
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| | top-notch; first-rate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter | |
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| | to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room) | |
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| | (the) very first | |
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| | to rush (to do sth urgent) / to try to be the first / to forestall | |
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| | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) | |
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| | first love | |
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| | first / number one / primary | |
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| | first session (of a conference etc) | |
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| | to start / at first / beginning | |
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| | lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice | |
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| | first day of the lunar month | |
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| | beginning / first day of lunar month / north | |
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| | first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) | |
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| | first prize | |
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| | initial / original / originally / at first | |
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| | Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武 | |
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| | first publication; maiden work | |
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| | first month of the lunar year | |
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| | at first glance | |
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| | surname Qin / Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇 / short name for 陝西｜陕西 | |
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| | Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖｜汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC) | |
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| | shop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom) | |
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| | first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers | |
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| | first-rate / of the highest order / high-class / excellent / superior | |
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| | grade A / first-class | |
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| | virgin; maiden / maiden (voyage etc); virgin (land); (a novelist's) first (work) | |
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| | Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital) | |
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| | the new moon / the first day of the lunar month | |
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| | person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as | |
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| | seat of honor / first place | |
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| | first place / leader (of a race) | |
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| | unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique | |
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| | Fabi, first currency issued by the 國民黨｜国民党 in 1935, in use until 1948 | |
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| | first issue | |
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| | empress's throne / (fig.) first place in a feminine competition | |
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| | to leave first (courteous expression used to excuse oneself) / (euphemism) to predecease; to die first (e.g. before one's spouse) | |
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| | Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) | |
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| | first half | |
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| | love at first sight | |
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| | (of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading / to make the first transaction of the day | |
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| | first day of the month / toilet / (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship) | |
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| | Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture | |
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| | to fall in love at first sight (idiom) | |
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| | King Wu of Zhou (-1043), personal name Ji Fa 姬發｜姬发, reigned 1046-1043 BC as first king of Western Zhou dynasty 1046-1043 BC | |
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| | early evening when lanterns are first lit | |
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| | first under heaven / number one in the country | |
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| | Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor | |
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| | first class / prime / main | |
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| | first-placed candidate in the provincial imperial examinations (old) | |
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| | First Lady (wife of US president) | |
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| | to be the first to begin a quarrel | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | lit. first execute the criminal, then report it to the emperor (idiom) / fig. to take some drastic action without the prior approval of higher authorities | |
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| | January / first month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor | |
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| | the tomb of the first emperor at Mt Li 驪山｜骊山 near Xi'an (awaits excavation) | |
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| | first class merit | |
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