Top 5,000 Chinese words
The 5,000 most frequent dictionary entries in SUBTLEX-CH subtitles, with pinyin and English definitions.
Words 601–700
Ordered by frequency- 分to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate
- 完成to complete; to accomplish
- 部ministry; department
- 昨晚yesterday evening; last night
- 同like; same
- 医院hospital; CL:所[suǒ],家[jiā],座[zuò]
- 不行won't do; be out of the question
- 半half; semi-
- 而已that's all; nothing more
- 上面on top of; above-mentioned
- 样子appearance; manner
- 少few; less
- 有趣interesting; fascinating
- 提used in 提防[dī fang] and 提溜[dī liu]
- 没关系it doesn't matter
- 斯(phonetic); this
- 杰克Jack (name)
- 真的really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine
- 部分part; share
- 要求to request; to require
- 糟糕too bad; how terrible
- 除了besides; apart from (... also...)
- 容易easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- 保持to keep; to maintain
- 虽然although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[kě shì] or 但是[dàn shì] etc)
- 办to do; to manage
- 想到to think of; to call to mind
- 教to teach
- 理解to comprehend; to understand
- 证据evidence; proof
- 加to add; plus
- 脸face; CL:張|张[zhāng],個|个[gè]
- 简单simple; not complicated
- 不同different; distinct
- 夫人lady; madam
- 父母father and mother; parents
- 重to repeat; repetition
- 恩favor; grace
- 曾once; already
- 事实fact; CL:個|个[gè]
- 飞机airplane; CL:架[jià]
- 家庭family; household
- 象elephant; CL:隻|只[zhī]
- 装adornment; to adorn
- 秘密secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret (CL:個|个[gè])
- 法law; method
- 尸体dead body; corpse
- 打开to open; to show (a ticket)
- 季season; the last month of a season
- 检查inspection; to examine
- 早上early morning; CL:個|个[gè]
- 玩笑to joke; joke
- 任务mission; assignment; task; duty; role; CL:項|项[xiàng],個|个[gè]
- 现场the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot
- 使to make; to cause
- 转see 轉文|转文[zhuǎi wén]
- 博士doctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade
- 直到until
- 紧张nervous; keyed up
- 二two; 2
- 简直simply; really
- 放弃to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- 小子(literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation)
- 电视television; TV; CL:臺|台[tái],部[bù]
- 强stubborn; unyielding
- 不好意思to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing
- 大概roughly; probably
- 的确really; indeed
- 特special; unique
- 药medicine; drug
- 回到to return to
- 男孩boy; CL:個|个[gè]
- 音乐music; CL:張|张[zhāng],曲[qǔ],段[duàn]
- 身体the body; one's health
- 血blood; colloquial pr. [xiě]
- 留下to leave behind; to stay behind
- 方式way; manner; style; mode; pattern; CL:個|个[gè]
- 伤to injure; injury
- 怪bewildering; odd
- 美元American dollar; US dollar
- 监狱prison
- 读comma; phrase marked by pause
- 这边this side; here
- 重新again; once more; re-
- 瞧to look at; to see
- 疯狂crazy; frenzied; wild
- 收到to receive
- 其中among; in
- 片disk; sheet
- 想法way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- 纽约New York
- 家里home
- 黑black; dark
- 身body; life
- 作(bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop
- 后面the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back
- 性nature; character
- 带来to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- 昨天yesterday
- 不好no good
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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