HSK 1 vocabulary
The starting level for beginner Mandarin: greetings, people, everyday places, and simple actions.
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 穿 | chuān | to wear clothes, shoes, hats, and other things on your body |
| 床 | chuáng | bed (furniture you sleep on) |
| 次 | cì | a time; how many times you do something, as in 一次 |
| 从 | cóng | from (a place or time); starting at |
| 错 | cuò | wrong; not correct |
| 打 | dǎ | to hit; to strike |
| 打车 | dǎchē | to take a taxi; to pay a driver to take you somewhere |
| 打电话 | dǎ diànhuà | to call someone on the phone |
| 打开 | dǎkāi | to open something, for example a door, window, book, or box |
| 打球 | dǎ qiú | to play a ball game or sport, like basketball or ping pong |
| 大 | dà | big; large |
| 大学 | dàxué | university; college |
| 大学生 | dàxuéshēng | a person who studies at a university or college |
| 到 | dào | to arrive at or reach a place |
| 得到 | dédào | to get something you want or need |
| 地 | de | word after describing words to say how an action happens (as in 慢慢地走) |
| 的 | de | A small word that shows something belongs to someone or something. |
| 等 | děng | to stay until someone comes or something happens; to wait |
| 地 | dì | the ground; the land under your feet |
| 地点 | dìdiǎn | a place where something is or happens |
| 地方 | dìfang | a place; an area |
| 地上 | dìshang | on the ground; on the floor |
| 地图 | dìtú | a picture that shows where streets, cities, and countries are |
| 弟弟 | dìdi | younger brother |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 (dì liù) "sixth") |
| 点 | diǎn | o'clock; used after a number to say the time |
| 电 | diàn | electricity |
| 电话 | diànhuà | a telephone; a phone |
| 电脑 | diànnǎo | computer (a machine you use for work, games, and email) |
| 电视 | diànshì | a TV; a television set |
| 电视机 | diànshìjī | A TV set; a machine with a screen for watching shows. |
| 电影 | diànyǐng | a movie; a film — a story you watch on a screen |
| 电影院 | diànyǐngyuàn | a place where people go to watch movies |
| 东 | dōng | east, the direction where the sun rises |
| 东边 | dōngbian | the east side of a place |
| 东西 | dōngxi | thing; object; stuff (things you buy, use, or eat) |
| 动 | dòng | to move; to make something move |
| 动作 | dòngzuò | a movement of the body |
| 都 | dōu | all, both; everyone or everything is or does this |
| 读 | dú | to read; to look at and understand written words |
| 读书 | dúshū | to read books |
| 对 | duì | right; correct; not wrong |
| 对不起 | duìbuqǐ | sorry; a polite word you say when you do something wrong |
| 多 | duō | many; much; a lot |
| 多少 | duōshao | how many? how much? used to ask about a number, amount, or price |
| 饿 | è | hungry; feeling that you want to eat |
| 儿子 | érzi | son; a person's male child |
| 二 | èr | two; the number 2 |
| 饭 | fàn | cooked rice |
| 饭店 | fàndiàn | restaurant; a place where people pay to eat meals |