Top 10,000 Chinese words
The 10,000 most frequent dictionary entries in SUBTLEX-CH subtitles, with pinyin and English definitions.
Words 7,701–7,800
Ordered by frequency- 搏斗to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
- 标题title; heading
- 水准level (of achievement etc); standard
- 海外overseas; abroad
- 灯塔lighthouse; CL:座[zuò]
- 煤气coal gas; gas (fuel)
- 疑惑to doubt; to distrust
- 简短brief (statement, summary etc); briefly
- 缓解to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis)
- 被告人defendant (in legal case)
- 褐色brown
- 门前in front of the door
- 青春期puberty; adolescence
- 预防to prevent; to take precautions against
- 争斗to struggle; to fight
- 关节joint (physiology); key point
- 受损to suffer damage
- 外头outside; out
- 好家伙my God!; oh boy!
- 安眠药sleeping pill; CL:粒[lì]
- 工地construction site
- 应有to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc)
- 情妇mistress; paramour (of married man)
- 户外outdoor
- 护卫to guard; to protect
- 推断to infer; to deduce
- 新婚newly wed
- 柯林斯Collins (name)
- 残骸remains; wreckage
- 没意思boring; of no interest
- 添麻烦to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience
- 火药gunpowder
- 爵士舞jazz (loanword)
- 直线straight line; sharply (rise or fall)
- 碰见to run into; to meet (unexpectedly)
- 耀眼to dazzle; dazzling
- 耳机headphones; earphones
- 表妹younger female cousin via female line
- 金库treasury
- 书呆子bookworm; pedant
- 代理人agent
- 保险柜a safe; strongbox
- 偷偷摸摸surreptitious; sneaky
- 关机to turn off (a machine or device); to finish shooting a film
- 刷牙to brush one's teeth
- 同谋to conspire with sb; to plot
- 嗜addicted to; fond of
- 圣地holy land (of a religion); sacred place
- 孕妇pregnant woman
- 师父used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan); master
- 微波炉microwave oven; CL:臺|台[tái]
- 怪事strange thing; curious occurrence
- 愚弄to make a fool out of; to fool
- 手榴弹hand grenade
- 拍卖会auction; CL:場|场[chǎng]
- 拾to ascend in light steps
- 掌管in charge of; to control
- 昆虫insect; CL:隻|只[zhī],群[qún],堆[duī]
- 歉to apologize; to regret
- 特质characteristic; special quality
- 竟敢to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to
- 简报presentation; briefing
- 谦虚modest; self-effacing
- 起点starting point
- 阿姆斯特朗surname Armstrong
- 雄male; staminate
- 一般来说generally speaking
- 上将general; admiral
- 上空the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace; (Tw) topless
- 世间world; earth
- 人命human life; CL:條|条[tiáo]
- 伊娃Eva (name)
- 便车to hitchhike
- 出国to go abroad; to leave the country
- 出身to be born of; to come from
- 堕胎to induce an abortion; induced abortion
- 复苏to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate
- 应急to respond to an emergency; to meet a contingency
- 拐角to turn a corner; corner
- 挠to scratch; to thwart
- 提及to mention; to raise (a subject)
- 杨poplar
- 果冻gelatin dessert
- 次数number of times; frequency
- 死尸a corpse; a dead body
- 沿along; to follow (a line, tradition etc)
- 洁clean
- 清晨early morning
- 灿烂to glitter; brilliant
- 缘cause; reason
- 蜡candle; wax
- 讨好to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb
- 贩子trafficker; dealer; monger; peddler
- 迷信superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth)
- 逃逸to escape; to run away
- 重重layer upon layer; one after another
- 铲子shovel; spade
- 除去to eliminate; to remove
- 鼻涕nasal mucus; snivel; snot
- 万事all things
Based on SUBTLEX-CH film and TV subtitles. These lists include words with an exact simplified-spelling match in CC-CEDICT. Positions count dictionary entries; the original corpus rank is shown on each word’s page. Words with equal counts are ordered by spelling. Frequency here describes these subtitles, not every kind of Chinese.
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