Updated Chinese Vocab List

人

rén — person / people / human / human being

大

dà — big / large / great / major / older (in some relationships)

小

xiǎo — small / little / young / younger / minor

山

shān — mountain / hill

水

shuǐ — water / liquid

火

huǒ — fire / flame / anger / popular / hot (popular)

木

mù — tree / wood / wooden

日

rì — sun / day / date

月

yuè — moon / month

口

kǒu — mouth / opening / entrance / classifier for people in a household

田

tián — field / farmland / farm field

女

nǚ — woman / female / girl / daughter

手

shǒu — hand / skill / person skilled at something

天

tiān — sky / heaven / day / weather / nature

地

dì — earth / ground / land / place

上

shàng — up / above / on / over / previous / to go up / to get on

下

xià — down / below / under / next / to go down / to get off

中

zhōng — middle / center / central / inside / among

一

yī — one / single / first / once

二

èr — two / second

三

sān — three / third

好

hǎo — good / well / fine / nice / okay / easy to / very

子

zǐ — child / son / offspring / seed (in some words)

我

wǒ — I / me / myself

你

nǐ — you

他

tā — he / him / another person

她

tā — she / her

们

men — plural marker for pronouns and people

是

shì — to be / is / am / are / yes / correct

不

bù — not / no / do not / does not

有

yǒu — to have / to possess / there is / there are / to exist

看

kàn — to look / to see / to watch / to read / to visit / to think or consider

吃

chī — to eat / to consume / to have a meal

喝

hē — to drink

来

lái — to come / to arrive / to come from / next / approximately (in some expressions)

去

qù — to go / to leave / to go to / previous or past (in some expressions)

说

shuō — to speak / to say / to talk / to explain

听

tīng — to listen / to hear / to obey

学

xué — to study / to learn / to imitate

生

shēng — to be born / life / living / raw / uncooked / to grow / student (in compounds)

家

jiā — home / family / household / specialist or expert (in compounds)

书

shū — book / letter / document / to write (literary)

车

chē — car / vehicle / wheeled vehicle

这

zhè — this / these / this one

那

nà — that / those / that one / then (in some contexts)

哪

nǎ — which / which one / where (in some compounds)

谁

shéi — who / whom / whose (depending on context)

什么

shénme — what / something / anything / whatever

怎么

zěnme — how / what way / why / how come

很

hěn — very / quite / very much

也

yě — also / too / as well / either (with negatives)

都

dōu — all / both / entirely / even

在

zài — at / in / on / to be at / to be located / to exist / currently doing

里

lǐ — inside / in / within / interior

外

wài — outside / outer / external / foreign

前

qián — front / before / previous / earlier / ago

后

hòu — back / behind / after / later / afterward

左

zuǒ — left / left side

右

yòu — right / right side

多

duō — many / much / more / numerous / how much or how many

少

shǎo — few / little / less / fewer / rarely / to lack

早

zǎo — early / morning / earlier / good morning

晚

wǎn — late / evening / night