Top 10,000 Chinese words
The 10,000 most frequent dictionary entries in SUBTLEX-CH subtitles, with pinyin and English definitions.
Words 9,801–9,900
Ordered by frequency- 山脉mountain range; CL:條|条[tiáo]
- 岗(bound form) hillock; mound; sentry post; policeman's beat
- 帮凶accomplice; accessory
- 彗星comet
- 微弱weak; faint
- 心不在焉absent-minded; preoccupied
- 忧伤distressed; laden with grief
- 惹恼to offend
- 战舰battleship; warship
- 打折to give a discount
- 扩张expansion; dilation
- 抽空to find the time to do sth
- 拷to beat; to flog
- 挨打to take a beating; to get thrashed
- 摄像to videotape
- 撕碎to tear to shreds
- 施压to pressure
- 无穷endless; boundless
- 查询to check; to inquire
- 残局endgame (in chess); desperate situation
- 派遣to send (on a mission); to dispatch
- 潮湿damp; moist
- 疗to treat; to cure
- 碾stone roller; roller and millstone
- 笼罩to envelop; to shroud
- 肋rib; Taiwan pr. [lè]
- 育to have children; to raise or bring up
- 行得通practicable; realizable
- 衣物clothing; clothing and other personal items
- 衣着clothes
- 讯问to interrogate; to ask about
- 责duty; responsibility
- 起伏to move up and down; to undulate
- 里拉lira (monetary unit) (loanword)
- 间接indirect
- 鸡皮疙瘩goose pimples; goose bumps
- 众所周知as everyone knows (idiom)
- 体育场stadium; CL:個|个[gè],座[zuò]
- 债券bond; debenture
- 偷袭to mount a sneak attack; to raid
- 全程the whole distance; from beginning to end
- 共鸣(physics) to resonate; resonance; sympathetic response
- 冒烟to discharge smoke; to fume with rage
- 冷战cold war; (fig.) strained relationship
- 务必must; to need to
- 单车(coll.) bike; bicycle (esp. bike-share bicycle)
- 句子sentence; CL:個|个[gè]
- 咖喱curry (loanword)
- 坚固firm; firmly
- 大局overall situation; the big picture
- 姓氏family name
- 崇高majestic; sublime
- 差距disparity; gap
- 彼that; those
- 得救to be saved
- 心想to think to oneself; to think
- 悲观pessimistic
- 持久lasting; enduring
- 掰to break off or break open sth with one's hands; (fig.) to break off (a relationship)
- 撇to cast away; to fling aside
- 攒to bring together
- 改动to alter; to modify
- 曹操Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
- 渐to imbue
- 留情to relent (to spare sb's feelings); to show mercy or forgiveness
- 盔甲armor; body armor and helmet
- 绘画to draw; to paint
- 继承人heir; successor
- 罢to stop; to cease
- 自欺欺人to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies
- 话筒microphone; (telephone) receiver; handset
- 调节to adjust; to regulate
- 费心to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth)
- 迷幻药hallucinogen; psychedelic drug
- 追溯lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to
- 顶楼top floor; attic
- 颜color; face
- 鼓手drummer
- 东边east; east side
- 亏to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient
- 伪证perjury
- 促使to prompt; to induce; to spur
- 假象false appearance; facade
- 划船to row a boat; rowing; boating
- 匠craftsman
- 原样original shape; the same as before
- 发言人spokesperson
- 变为to change into
- 名气reputation; fame
- 埋怨to complain; to grumble (about)
- 埋藏to bury; to hide by burying
- 奉陪(honorific) to accompany; to keep sb company
- 奏to play music; to achieve
- 女主人hostess; mistress
- 完好intact; in good condition
- 定律scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy); (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
- 容许to permit; to allow
- 就是说in other words; that is
- 弹头warhead
- 微不足道negligible; insignificant
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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