one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid

nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個｜个

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本

treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character

pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL: 支, 枝

straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters

character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個｜个

(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / to taste sth; to sample / to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute)

to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character

second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting

letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

nature / disposition / temperament / character / CL: 個｜个

tint; coloring; coloration / (fig.) flavor; character

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

bird / CL: 隻｜只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

Chinese character(s)

virtue / goodness / morality / ethics / kindness / favor / character / kind

Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句

character / intrinsic quality (of a person) / quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)

明治 written as a single character

horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent

bone / CL: 根, 塊｜块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]

speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message

to conduct oneself / behavior; conduct; personal character

ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊｜块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead

character; temperament; disposition / bad temper / CL: 股

大正 written as a single character

two-character surname Chunyu

person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character

square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively

overall character

a manly man / a man of character

essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆｜竖笔

an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling")

intellectual property (in China, esp. since 2015, often used as an entertainment industry term for a creative work used as the basis of a new product, such as a manga adapted as a tv series, or the image of a cartoon character appearing on merchandise)

(in a soap opera or movie) voice-over that makes a character's unspoken thoughts audible to the audience

"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc

ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character

simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字

five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten

nobleman / person of noble character

Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters

turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折

pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph

character; moral strength; integrity / (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing

character acquired through long habit / habits and properties

lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八 has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet

mustache shaped like character 八

one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂, 亻 etc)

iteration mark (used to represent a duplicated character)

component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂

one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued

abbr. of 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

the design of a character (in games, manga etc) (abbr. for 人物設定｜人物设定) / (fig.) (a celebrity or other public figure's) image in the eyes of the public / public persona

昭和 written as a single character

iteration mark (used to represent a duplicated character)

平成 written as a single character

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

spacious and well-lit / open and clear / (of character) optimistic / cheerful / carefree

popularity / personality / character

(slang) to ship a couple (i.e. to strongly desire that a pair of fictional characters become a couple) / also pr. [ke4 C P]

man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經｜三字经)

unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3), aka 點｜点

Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer

brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)

Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin

standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters

the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄｜扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters

moral character

Doraemon, Japanese manga and anime series character

inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities

character / nature / quality / plain / to pawn / pledge / hostage / to question / Taiwan pr. [zhi2]

to practice writing characters

master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记

the spirit or character of a political party

leader / the one in control / main (part, character etc)

the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC)

name of "water" radical 氵 in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85)

the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling

two-character surname Shangguan

lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet

(slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.)

to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character

to model; to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words)

traditional Chinese character

incorrectly written or mispronounced characters

to cultivate one's moral character / (fashion) slim-fit / body-hugging

geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區｜区 and cell 位 used to specify a character in a CJK character set)

shape resembling the character 八 or 8 / V-shape / splayed / figure of eight

the strokes of a character / calligraphy and painting

single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language)