Most Common Chinese Verbs: Free PDF and Flashcards

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Word	Pinyin	Type	Meaning
参加	cānjiā	Other	to participate/to take part/to join
参考	cānkǎo	Other	consultation/reference/to consult/to refer
参观	cānguān	Other	to look around/to tour/to visit
双	shuāng	Other	two/double/pair/both/even (number)
反	fǎn	Other	phonetic system
反对	fǎnduì	Other	to oppose
反应	fǎnyìng	Other	to react/to respond/reaction/response/reply/chemical reaction
反抗	fǎnkàng	Other	to resist/to rebel
反映	fǎnyìng	Other	to mirror/to reflect/mirror image/reflection/(fig.) to report/to make known/to render
反问	fǎnwèn	Other	to ask (a question) in reply/to answer a question with a question/rhetorical question
发	fā	Other	to send out/to show (one's feeling)/to issue/to develop/to make a bundle of money/classifier for gunshots (rounds)
发出	fāchū	Other	to issue (an order, decree etc)
发动	fādòng	Other	to start/to launch/to unleash/to mobilize/to arouse
发射	fāshè	Other	to shoot (a projectile)/to fire (a rocket)/to launch/to emit (a particle)/to discharge/emanation/emission
发展	fāzhǎn	Other	development/growth/to develop/to grow/to expand
发扬	fāyáng	Other	to develop/to make full use of
发抖	fādǒu	Other	to tremble/to shake/to shiver
发挥	fāhuī	Other	to display/to exhibit/to bring out implicit or innate qualities/to express (a thought or moral)/to develop (an idea)/to elaborate (on a theme)
发明	fāmíng	Other	to invent/an invention
发炎	fāyán	Other	to become inflamed/inflammation
发烧	fāshāo	Other	to have a high temperature (from illness)/to have a fever
发现	fāxiàn	Other	to notice
发生	fāshēng	Other	to happen
发脾气	fāpíqì	Other	to lose one's temper
发行	fāxíng	Other	to publish/to issue (stocks, currency etc)/to release/to distribute (a film)

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