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Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.
- 的 (de) of / ~’s (possessive particle) The first character to learn is 的 (de), often used as a possessive particle with a neutral tone. It might seem quite an odd character to begin with, but you will use this one so often, better learn it now.
- 一 (yī) one / 1 / a. 一 (yī) is an ideograph character, meaning that it is an abstract idea of the number 1. Radicals. n/a. Common Bigrams. 一个 (yī gè) a /an. 一些 (yī xiē) some / a few.
- 是 (shì) is / are / am / yes / to be’ 是 (shì) is commonly found to mean ‘is’ or ‘are’ in a Chinese sentence. It can also be used as ‘yes’. Radicals. 日 (rì) sun.
- 不 (bù) not / no. Radicals. The origins of the 不 (bù) character are that it depicts a bird flying up towards to the sky and out of sight. The horizontal stroke 一 shows that the sky is the limit, preventing the bird from going any further.
The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (Chinese: 通用规范汉字表; pinyin: Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo) is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013.
About 80% of all characters are phono-semantic or picto-phonetic characters with with one component indicating meaning and the other referring to the pronunciation. Traditionally, Chinese characters are grouped according to their shared components known as “radicals (部首, bùshǒu)”.
The table below presents all the 8105 characters together with the index number in 通用规范汉字表 (General Standard#) and additional useful data (pinyin, definition, radical, strokes, HSK level, frequency).
Level 1 hanzi (3500 characters):
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Here is the daily used Chinese Characters List, which is categorized by frequently used radicals. You can also feel free to download both simplified and traditional Chinese characters list PDF versions. Simplified Chinese Characters List PDF Traditional Chinese Characters List PDF. 400+ Most Common Chinese Characters List. “mouth” Radical: 口.
