Pinyora graded readers: 102 short texts, easiest first

face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc; flour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; …

煮zhǔ

to cook; to boil

汤tāng

soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled

盛chéng

to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensil

满mǎn

to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; …

酒jiǔ

wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage

趴pā

to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent (from Japanese "pā", short for "pāsento")

睡着shuìzháo

to fall asleep

外套wàitào

outer garment; jacket; coat

叫醒jiàoxǐng

to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse

凌晨língchén

very early in the morning; in the wee hours

班bān

team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles

代驾dàijià

to drive a vehicle for its owner (often as a paid service for sb who has consumed alcohol) (abbr. for 代理驾驶 (dàilǐjiàshǐ)); substitute driver (abbr. for 代驾司机 (dàijiàsījī))

网约车wǎngyuēchē

app-based taxi

早点zǎodiǎn

breakfast

摊子tānzi

booth; vendor's stall; (fig.) organizational structure; scale of operations

支zhī

to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

起来qǐlai

to stand up; to get up; also pr. qi3lái

一刻yīkè

a quarter of an hour; 15 minutes; a moment; an instant

交接jiāojiē

(of two things) to come into contact; to meet; to hand over to; to take over from; to associate with; to have friendly relations with; to have sexual intercourse

封fēng

to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters

梦见mèngjiàn

to dream about (sth or sb); to see in a dream

村cūn

village; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish

井jǐng

a well; neat; orderly

母亲mǔqīn

mother

填tián

to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in

小小xiǎoxiǎo

very small; very few; very minor

广场guǎngchǎng

public square; plaza

柳树liǔshù

willow

不在了bùzàile

to be dead; to have passed away

巷xiàng

lane; alley

开裂kāiliè

to split open; to dehisce (of fruit or cotton bolls, to split open)

换成huànchéng

to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into

整齐zhěngqí

orderly; neat; even; tidy

方fāng

square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; …

砖zhuān

brick; tile (floor or wall, not roof)

记忆jìyì

to remember; to recall; memory

当年dāngnián

in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life

过去guòqù

(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

傍晚bàngwǎn

in the evening; when night falls; towards evening; at night fall; at dusk

凉席liángxí

summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo)

躺tǎng

to recline; to lie down

数shǔ

to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list

星星xīngxing

(coll.) a star; the stars in the sky

直到zhídào

until

蚊子wénzi

mosquito

赶gǎn

to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)

屋wū

(bound form) house; (bound form) room

空调kōngtiáo

air conditioning; air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode)

好像hǎoxiàng

as if; to seem like

层céng

to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers

邻居línjū

neighbor

村里cūnlǐ

village; hamlet