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We skipped the dusty, outdated terms you’ll never use.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
看法	kànfă
眼睛	yǎnjīng	eyes
眼鏡	yǎnjìng	glasses, spectacles
知識	zhīshì
石油	shíyóu
石頭	shítou	stone
石頭(˙ㄊㄡ) /石	shítou/shí
碗	wǎn	measure word for servings of food; bowl
碼頭	mătou
社會	shèhuì
票	piào	ticket
福利	fúlì
禮堂	lĭtáng
禮拜	lĭbài
禮拜天	lĭbàitiān
禮物	lǐwù	present, gift
禮貌	lĭmào
秋天	qiūtiān	autumn, fall
秋天/秋	qiūtiān/qiū
科學	kēxué	science
科技	kējì
秘密/祕密	mìmì
程度	chéngdù
空氣	kōngqì	air
空軍	kōngjūn

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