Most Common Traditional Chinese Nouns: Free PDF and Flashcards

Nouns are the bones of any sentence – without them, you can’t name the person you’re meeting, the food you’re craving, or the place you’re trying to find. This collection of around 1,000 common Traditional Chinese nouns gives you the building blocks for real conversations, not just textbook drills.

We skipped the dusty, outdated terms you’ll never use. Instead, every entry packs a straightforward meaning and a natural example sentence so you see exactly how the word behaves in the wild. Audio playback is built right in – tap to hear the pronunciation and give your ears a workout alongside your eyes.

Let’s make noun hunting delightfully easy—because even the busiest language learner deserves a tidy shortcut. Scroll to the bottom for the free printable Most Common Traditional Chinese Nouns vocabulary list PDF and the free downloadable printable Most Common Traditional Chinese Nouns flashcards.

Use this list as a starting point, then keep going in the Yak Yacker Traditional Chinese section for more words, phrases, and study-friendly reference pages.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
事實	shìshí
事情	shìqíng	affair; something to do, a matter, event
事業	shìyè
亞洲	yàzhōu
交通	jiāotōng
人	rén	person, people
人人	rénrén
人們	rénmen
人口	rénkŏu
人家	rénjiā
人數	rénshù
人民	rénmín
人物	rénwù
人間	rénjiān
人類	rénlèi
什麼/甚麼	shénme
今天	jīntiān	today
今年	jīnnián	this year
他(們)	tā(men)	he they, them)
他/她	tā
他們/她們	tāmen
以上	yĭshàng
以下	yĭxià
以前	yǐqián	before, ago, formerly
以後	yǐhòu	afterwards, after

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