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We skipped the dusty, outdated terms you’ll never use.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
商店	shāngdiàn	store
商業	shāngyè
問題	wèntí	problem/ question
啤酒	píjiŭ
嘴巴	zuǐbā	mouth
嘴巴/嘴	zuĭba/zuĭ
國	guó
國(家)	guó(jiā)	nation, country
國內	guónèi
國外	guówài
國家	guójiā
國小	guóxiăo
國王	guówáng
國語	guóyŭ
圖	tú
圖書館	túshūguǎn	library
圖片	túpiàn	picture, photograph
地	dì	the earth, land, soil, fields, ground, place, position, background, distance
地上	dìshàng	ground
地下	dìxià
地位	dìwèi
地區	dìqū
地圖	dìtú	map
地址	dìzhĭ
地帶	dìdài

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