HSK 1 vocabulary — 300 words to learn

动to love; to be fond of; to like; to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen); affection

数eight

名(coll.) father; dad

助(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?

名daytime; during the day; day

数hundred; numerous; all kinds of

数、（副）half; semi-; incomplete

名baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun)

名cup; glass

量classifier for books, periodicals, files etc; (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source

名、后缀side; edge; margin

名、动illness; disease; defect

副no; not so; (bound form) not; un-

you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite

副don't!; must not

名vegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor

名tea; tea plant

动to sing; to call loudly; to chant

名supermarket (abbr. for 超级市场)

名car; vehicle; machine

动to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy

名taxi; (Tw) rental car

动to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to go through (e.g. a tunnel); to cross (e.g. a street); to thread; to stri…

to make a telephone call

形big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐)

代everyone; influential family; great expert

名university; college

名university student; college student

动to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)

助of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative s…

前缀(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperia…

名younger brother

量、（名）classifier for small amounts; to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)

名inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store

名telephone; phone call; phone number

名computer

名television; TV

名movie; film

名cinema; movie theater

名thing; stuff; person

副all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already

动to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school)

动to read a book; to study; to attend school

形、介、（动、量）right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding

动to let (sb) down; to disappoint; I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon

形、动、代、（数、副）many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd

代how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

名son

数two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid

名cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan

名restaurant; hotel

名room

副very; really; unusual; extraordinary

名airplane

量、（动、名）to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)

量minute

形happy; glad; willing (to do sth)

名song; (bound form) to sing

名older brother

量(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual

动、（介）to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb)

名company; firm; corporation

动、名to work; (of a machine) to operate; job

名dog

形expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank

名country; nation; state; (bound form) national

副still; still in progress; still more

名child

名Chinese language

名Chinese character(s)

形、（副）、（动）good; appropriate; proper; all right!

形tasty; delicious

形good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situation

形pleasant to hear

形amusing; fun; interesting

名、量(literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床号)

动to drink; variant of 嗬

介、连(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr.); (math.) sum; to make peace

副very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic…

名behind; back; after; afterwards; later

动、（量）to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer; classifier for literary divisions (acts of…

动to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; can; to have the skill; to know how to

名train

名(chicken) egg; hen's egg

代、数how many; how much; several; a few

名、量、（后缀）home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)

名family member; (old) servant

动to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)

量classifier for events, things, clothes etc; item; component

名dumpling; pot-sticker

动、（介）to shout; to call; to order

名older sister

名this year

名today; the present time; now

数nine; 9

动to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)

动to open (transitive or intransitive); to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil

动to drive a car (or train etc)

动to see; to look at; to read; to watch

动to visit a doctor; to see a patient

动to see; to catch sight of

动、形can; may; possible

名subject; course; class

名、量mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mout…

量classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units; lump; chunk; piece

动to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speake…

名teacher

助(modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (complete…

形cold

名lining; interior; inside

数two; both; some

数zero; nought; zero sign

数six; 6

名mama; mommy; mother

助(question particle for "yes-no" questions)

动to buy; to purchase

动to sell; to betray; to spare no effort

形、动busy; hurriedly; to hurry

名cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword) (coll.) modem

it doesn't matter

动to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble)

动、副to not have; to not be; haven't

名younger sister; young woman

后缀plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals

名(cooked) rice

名bread

名noodles

名next year

名tomorrow

名name (of a person or thing)

代how; which

代which; who

代where?; somewhere; anywhere

代where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?

代which ones?; who?; what?

代、（连）(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr.); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in…

代over there; yonder

代that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this)

代there; that place

代there

代those

形(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位

名boyfriend

助(sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?");…

动to be able to; can; might possibly

代you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您)

hello; hi

代you (plural)

名、量year

代you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你)

名cow's milk

形female; woman; daughter

名daughter

名girlfriend

名lady; madam; Miss

名friend

形cheap; inexpensive; a petty advantage; to let sb off lightly

形pretty; beautiful

名apple

数seven; 7

动to get out of bed; to get up

数thousand

名front; forward; ahead

名coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两

动to ask; to invite; to treat (to a meal etc)

动Excuse me, may I ask...?

动to go; to go to (a place); to send

名last year

形to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather)

名person; people

动to know; to recognize; to be familiar with

量、（名）(bound form) sun; day; day of the month

数three; 3

名store; shop

名、动(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); (directional complement) up

动to go to work; to be on duty; to start work

动to go to class; to attend class; to go to teach a class

名morning

动to go to school; to attend school

形、动few; less; to lack

代who

代what?; something; anything

动to fall ill

数ten; 10

名time; length of time; moment

名(concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time

名matter; thing; item

动to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well

名cell phone; mobile phone

名book; letter; document

名bookstore

名water; (after a name) ... River; (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy

名fruit

动to sleep; to lie down

动to go to bed; to sleep

动to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off

动to speak; to say; to talk

数four; 4

量classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)

代(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some oth…

代it

代she

代they; them

代they; them

代they; them (females)

副highest; greatest; too (much)

名、量day; sky; heaven

名weather

动to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr.)

动to hear

名fellow student; classmate; to study at the same school

名outside; in addition; foreign

名outside; outer surface; abroad

动to play; to have fun; to trifle with

形evening; night; late

名evening meal; dinner; supper

名evening; night; in the evening

叹hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

动to ask; to inquire

名question; problem; issue

代I; me; my

代we; us; ourselves; our

数five; 5

名lunch

动to like; to be fond of

名、动、量down; downwards; below

to rain

动to finish work; to get off work; next service (train, bus etc)

动to finish class; to get out of class; to be fired

名afternoon; p.m.

名teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband

名now; at present; currently

动to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)

形、前缀small; tiny; few

名child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)

名hour

名elementary school; primary school

名primary school student; schoolchild

量classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several

动to write

动to thank; thanks; thank you

形new; newly; meso- (chemistry)

名week; day of the week; Sunday

名Sunday

名Sunday

动to rest; rest

动to learn; to study; to imitate

名student; schoolchild

动to learn; to study

名school

名snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)

动to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should

副also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme o…

数one; single; a (article)

名clothes

名doctor; medical practitioner

名hospital

数half

数量、（副）(after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); al…

名chair

数量a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the compar…

数量some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er

动to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 intentional)

代(there are) some (who are...); some (exist)

副slightly; a little; somewhat

代、（副）some; somewhat; rather; a bit

名rain

量currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary; (bound form) basic; fundamental

名moon; month; monthly

副again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more

动、介、副to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

动goodbye; see you again later

形early; morning; Good morning!

名breakfast

名early morning

代how?; what?; why?

代how?; how about?; how was it?

动to try to find; to look for; to call on sb

代(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifie…

代this side; here

代(pronoun) this; (adjective) this

代here

代here

代these

副、（形）really; truly; indeed

副to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing

量grain that has begun to ripen

动to know; to become aware of

名China

名Chinese language

名noon; midday

名middle school

名middle-school student; high school student

动to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)

名table; desk

名letter; symbol; character

名yesterday

动to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc)

动to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)

to prepare a meal; to cook