Most Common Chinese Verbs: Free PDF and Flashcards

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Word	Pinyin	Type	Meaning
上	shàng	Other	(bound form) up
上学	shàngxué	Other	to go to school/to attend school
上当	shàngdàng	Other	taken in (by sb's deceit)/to be fooled/to be duped
上班	shàngbān	Other	to go to work/to be on duty/to start work/to go to the office
上网	shàngwǎng	Other	to go online/to connect to the Internet/(of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet/(tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net
上街	shàngjiē	Other	to go onto the streets/to go shopping
上课	shàngkè	Other	to go to class/to attend class/to go to teach a class
下	xià	Other	down/downwards/below/lower/later/next (week etc)/second (of two parts)/to decline/to go down/to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)/measure word to show the
下班	xiàbān	Other	to finish work/to get off work
下课	xiàkè	Other	to finish class/to get out of class/(fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed/to be fired
下雨	xiàyǔ	Other	to rain
下雪	xiàxuě	Other	to snow
不到	bùdào	Other	not to arrive/not reaching/insufficient/less than
不如	bùrú	Other	not equal to/not as good as/inferior to/it would be better to
不必	bùbì	Other	need not/does not have to/not necessarily
不成	bùchéng	Other	won't do/unable to/(at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
不止	bùzhǐ	Other	incessantly/without end/more than/not limited to
不见(了)	bùjiàn(le)	Other	not to see/not to meet/to have disappeared/to be missing
不顾	bùgù	Other	in spite of
专业	zhuānyè	Other	,個\|个[ge4]/professional
丢	diū	Other	to lose/to put aside/to throw
丢脸	diūliǎn	Other	to lose face/humiliation
个别	gèbié	Other	individually
主要	zhǔyào	Adverb	main/principal/major/primary
举	jǔ	Other	to lift/to hold up/to cite/to enumerate/to act/to raise/to choose/to elect/act/move/deed

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