Words 401–500
蔬菜
vegetables
新鲜
fresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel; uncommon
收银台
checkout counter; cashier's desk
等
to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
晚饭
evening meal; dinner; supper
打电话
to make a telephone call
喂
hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc); to feed
谁
who; also pr. shuí
同学
to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate
明天
tomorrow
有空
to have time (to do sth)
请
to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
几点
what time?; when?
老地方
same place as before; usual place; stomping ground
明天见
(coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms)
银行
bank
换
to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
一些
some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
开门
(lit. and fig.) to open a door; to open for business
半
half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
一会儿
a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. yīhuǐr
门
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇 (shàn)); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
开
to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文 (Kāi'ěrwén); abbr. for 开本 (kāiběn), book format
里面
inside; interior; also pr. lǐmian
用
to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
护照
passport
办事
to handle (affairs); to work
办
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event); to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise); (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect); (bound form) office (as in 招办 (zhāobàn), admissions office) (abbr. for 办公室 (bàngōngshì))
完
to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire
看病
to visit a doctor; to see a patient
不舒服
unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy
头
head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; …
疼
(it) hurts; sore; to love dearly
医院
hospital
怎么
how?; what?; why?
头疼
headache
咳嗽
to cough
吃药
to take medicine
需要
to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
休息
rest; to rest
派对
(loanword) party
玩
to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. wàn); to keep sth for entertainment; Taiwan pr. wàn
上面
on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. shàngmian
切
to cut; to slice; to carve; (math.) tangential
哪里
where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里
一直
straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
向
towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; …
右转
to turn right
机场
airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship
太
highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
借
to borrow; (used in combination with 给 (gěi) or 出 (chū) etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 着 (zhe)) by; with
图书馆
library
本
(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current (year etc); (bound form) original; (bound form) inherent; originally; initially; capital; principal; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
中
within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right
文书
document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
还有
there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
关于
pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of
历史
history
图书
books (in a library or bookstore)
证
to admonish; certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
家里
home
没有
haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
门口
doorway; gate
车票
ticket for a bus or train
一般
same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
老人
old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
让座
to give up one's seat for sb
慢
slow
计划
plan; project; program; to plan; to map out
中国菜
Chinese cuisine
日本
Japan
过得
How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad
愉快
cheerful; happy; pleasant; delighted
春节
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
快乐
happy; joyful
重要
important; significant; major
节日
holiday; festival
每年
every year; each year; yearly
一月
January; first month (of the lunar year)
二月
February; second month (of the lunar year)
前
front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; …
全家
whole family
打扫
to clean; to sweep
房子
house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room
贴
to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip
对联
rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway
除夕
lunar New Year's Eve
年夜饭
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
饺子
dumpling; pot-sticker
孩子们
children
收到
to receive
红包
money wrapped in red as a gift; bonus payment; kickback; bribe
晚会
evening party
烟花
fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
第二天
next day; the morrow
亲戚
a relative (i.e. family relation)
拜年
to pay a New Year call; to wish sb a Happy New Year