Vocabulary

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jīng already HSK 2
zhè yàng this kind of; so; this way; like this; such HSK 2
děi to have to; must; ought to; to need to HSK 2
wéi as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) HSK 2
can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good HSK 2
oneself; one's own HSK 2
dàn but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just HSK 2
ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
xiè tiān - xiè (idiom) thank goodness Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
méi guān xi it doesn't matter Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè bu (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
jīn r (coll.) today Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
duì duì right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kuài a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
Sān yuè March; third month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Nán kāi Nankai district of Tianjin municipality Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Lǎo Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shuō zhēn de to tell the truth; honestly; in fact ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
zhè shì this is; these are ∼HSK 1
mèi younger sibling; younger brother's wife ∼HSK 1
kāi mén to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
men yamen, government office in dynastic China ∼HSK 1
jiàn le to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found ∼HSK 1
diǎn a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia ∼HSK 1
dào liǎo at last; finally; in the end ∼HSK 1
Míng bright, light, brilliant; clear ∼HSK 1
jīn now, today, modern era ∼HSK 1
chū jiā to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun ∼HSK 1
èr shí twenty; 20 ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
(literary) some day; (literary) days in the past ∼HSK 1
hǎo several; quite a few ∼HSK 1
yǒu qián rén rich person; the rich ∼HSK 1
rén yǐng the shadow of a human figure; a trace of a person's presence (usu. combined with a negative verb) ∼HSK 1