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We skipped the dusty, outdated terms you’ll never use.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
句子	jùzi	sentence
可樂	kělè	cola
台灣/臺灣	táiwān
右(邊)	yòu(biān)	right
司機	sījī
各位	gèwèi
吉他	jítā
同學	tóngxué	classmate; to be in the same class
同時	tóngshí
名字	míngzì	full name, given name
名字(˙ㄗ)	míngzi
名詞	míngcí
周末	zhōumò	weekend
味/味兒	wèi/wèir
味道	wèidào	taste, flavor, smell, odor
命	mìng
咖啡	kāfēi	coffee
品質	pĭnzhí
哥哥	gēge	elder brother
哥哥/哥	gēge/gē
哪兒	nǎr	where
哪裡	nǎlǐ	where
哪裡/哪裏/哪兒	nălĭ/năr
商人	shāngrén
商品	shāngpĭn

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