Most Common Chinese Verbs: Free PDF and Flashcards

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Word	Pinyin	Type	Meaning
管理	guǎnlǐ	Other	to supervise/to manage/to administer/management/administration
粉红	fěnhóng	Other	pink
繁殖	fánzhí	Other	to breed/to reproduce/to propagate
约	yuē	Other	to make an appointment/to invite/approximately/pact/treaty/to economize/to restrict/to reduce (a fraction)/concise
约会	yuēhuì	Other	,個\|个[ge4]/to arrange to meet
纪念	jìniàn	Other	to commemorate
练	liàn	Other	to practice/to train/to drill/to perfect (one's skill)/exercise/(literary) white silk/to boil and scour raw silk
练习	liànxí	Other	to practice/exercise/drill/practice
经	jīng	Other	classics/sacred book/scripture/to pass through/to undergo/to bear/to endure/warp (textile)/longitude/menstruation/channel (TCM)/abbr. for economics 經濟\|经济[jing1
经过	jīngguò	Other	to pass/to go through/process/course
经验	jīngyàn	Other	experience/to experience
结	jié	Other	knot/sturdy/bond/to tie/to bind/to check out (of a hotel)
结婚	jiéhūn	Other	to marry/to get married/CL:次[ci4]
结束	jiéshù	Other	termination/to finish/to end/to conclude/to close
结束 jiéshù	to end, to finish	Other	会议几点结束？Huìyì jǐ diǎn jiéshù?
给	gěi	Other	to/for/for the benefit of/to give/to allow/to do sth (for sb)/(grammatical equivalent of 被)/(grammatical equivalent of 把)/(sentence intensifier)
给 gěi	to give	Other	我给你发消息。Wǒ gěi nǐ fā xiāoxi.
继续	jìxù	Other	to continue/to proceed with/to go on with
维持	wéichí	Other	to keep
编	biān	Other	to weave/to plait/to organize/to group/to arrange/to edit/to compile/to write/to compose/to fabricate/to make up
缝	féng	Other	to sew/to stitch
罚	fá	Other	to punish/to penalize
罢工	bàgōng	Other	a strike/to go on strike
翻	fān	Other	to turn over/to flip over/to overturn/to rummage through/to translate/to decode/to double/to climb over or into/to cross
翻译/翻/译	fānyì/fān/yì	Other	to turn over/to flip over/to overturn/to rummage through/to translate/to decode/to double/to climb over or into/to cross

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