Learn Chinese for Free - Lesson 96
Today's Chinese characters:
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Today we start to review Lessons 51-95. The characters are in the order you studied them.
Characters' Essentials
Character 
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Tree; wood, timber |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Writing; culture |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Ancient, paleo-, archeo- |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Call, name |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Name; famous |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Character, word |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Wave; first name of the Chinese n.1 most common full name |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Tall, high; of a high level or degree |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Excitement |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Hard, strong; first name of the Chinese n.2 most common full name |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Sea, big lake; first name of the Chinese n.3 most common full name |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Armed forces; first name of the Chinese n.5 most common full name |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Big |
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "doctor, physician" |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | In this lesson it's used in the names 马小清 and 马小民, but please remember that it means "small, little". |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Defend (in this lesson it's used in the name 大卫) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Orchid (in this lesson it's used in the name 王兰) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | The capital of a country (in this lesson it's used in the name 刘京) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | The people (in this lesson it's used in the name 马小民) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Clear, distinct (in this lesson it's used in the name 马小清) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Do, work at; make, manufacture, produce |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Study abroad |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Study |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Abundant; have a wide knowledge of |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Soldier; a person trained in a certain field |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Wheat flour |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Package, bag |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Office, post, position |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A person engaged in some field of activity |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Tooth |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Explore |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A place difficult of access; danger |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Family; home; a person or family engaged in a certain trade; a specialist in a certain field |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Guard, defend |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Used after an adjective or verb as a substitute for a person or a thing |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Art |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Art |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Put in proper order, clean up, tidy up |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Hair |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Merchant; commerce |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Agriculture; farmer |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A person engaged in manual labour |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Direction |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Guide |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Attend to, take charge of, manage |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Machine, engine |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Be decorated with paintings or pictures |
| - | Drawing, painting, picture |
| - | Paint, draw |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Miscellaneous, varied, sundry, mixed |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Goods, commodity |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Poetry, verse, poem |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Water; a general term for rivers, lakes, seas, etc. |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Hand; a person doing or good at a certain job |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Politics, political affairs |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Rule |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Strike, hit, knock |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Sky, air |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Centre, middle; in, among |
| - | China |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Protect, guard, shield |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Alert, vigilant; alarm, police |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Examine, observe |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Government official, officer |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Fly |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Do, perform; behaviour, conduct |
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Business firm |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Soldier |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | This |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | That |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Beautiful; short for America |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Britain; English |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Stem or root of plants; foundation |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Country, nation |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Meaning; wish; short for Italy |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Profit; wealth |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Virtue |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Law; method |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Short for Europe |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Short for Africa |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Short for Asia |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Continent |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Who |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Stay |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Please |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Come or go into |
Character
Pronunciation
nǎ
Before measure words or before numeral-measure word compounds, it is often pronounced nai3 or nei3.
Before measure words or before numeral-measure word compounds, it is often pronounced nai3 or nei3.
Meaning
| - | Which, what |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | East |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | West |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | South |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | North |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Pole |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Ocean |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Brasil" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Canada" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Canada" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "India" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "India" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Russia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Russia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Third character of the Chinese word for "Russia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Somalia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Third character of the Chinese word for "Somalia" |
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | In, inside |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Iraq" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Iraq" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Third character of the Chinese word for "Iraq" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Kenya" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Spain" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Chile" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | First character of the Chinese word for "Peru" - Careful, the other pronunciation is more important |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Peru" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Second character of the Chinese word for "Colombia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Third character of the Chinese word for "Colombia" - Choose a fun meaning! |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Return |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Go |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Together, in common |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Practise, exercise, review |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | See |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Eye, eyes |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | How many |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Evening |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Up |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Electricity |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Look at |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Book |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Write |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Letter |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Film, movie |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Listen |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Sound |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Music |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Buy |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Records, annals |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Newspaper; periodical, journal |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Do, work, attend to |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Year (of age) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Chinese (language) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Language |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Only, just, merely, simply |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Tie, unite |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Marriage |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Modal particle placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a change or the emergence of a new situation. |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Silver; relating to currency |
Character
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Room |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Used to form the negative of the verb 有 |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Have |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Now |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Hour |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Minute |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Time as measured in hours and minutes |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Time |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Time |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Eat |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Meal |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Wanting, short of |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A quarter (of an hour) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Half |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Long |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | City wall |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Used at the end of a sentence to indicate suggestion, request or command |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Food |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A hall or room for a specific purpose |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Sleep |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Sleep |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Say |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Group |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Live, reside |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A storied building |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | A designation for certain government offices and public places |
| - | College, institute |
| - | Hospital |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Road |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Many |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Few |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | House; room |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Room |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Floor |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Correct, right |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Be able to (after learning) |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Be at a distance from, be apart from, be away from |
Character
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Near, close |
Description and Examples
Please try your best to do what is written under the section Exercise.
Exercise
Try to make a sentence with each character. If you just don't remember, go back to the corresponding lesson. I know, it's boring... or it's just like when you don't remember a Friend's name and you need to courageously and humbly ask her "I'm so sorry, can you repeat your name, please?"
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