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

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 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

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

Chinese character(s)

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

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

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

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

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

to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL:幅,張｜张) / to draw (a line) (variant of 劃｜划) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃｜划) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃｜划)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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)

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

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

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°

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

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

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

essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality

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

to conduct oneself / behavior; conduct; personal character

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

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

to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out / to omit (a character when writing)

moral character

to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

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

popularity / personality / character

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

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

nobleman / person of noble character

texture / background (texture) / grain / quality / character / disposition

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

inherent qualities / natural qualities / distinctive character / true qualities

overall character

unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone

combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc)

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

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

traditional Chinese character

incorrectly written or mispronounced characters

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)

characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number

character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

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

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc

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

definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)

golden seal / characters tattooed on a convict's face

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)

Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights

blank / blank space on a form / space / 囗 (indicating missing or illegible character)

number of written characters; number of words; word count

Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)

to walk (side part of split character)

oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)

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

entropy (character created in 1923)

to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號｜注音符号)

character (computing)

Tarzan (fictional character reared by apes in the jungle) / Taishan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan

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

to turn a vehicle around / (computing) "carriage return" character / the "Enter" key / to hit the "Enter" key

two-character surname Ouyang

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

Jiyun, Chinese rime dictionary with 53,525 single-character entries, published in 11th century

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

complicated / many / in great numbers / abbr. for 繁體｜繁体, traditional form of Chinese characters

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

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

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

mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding)

the East; the Orient / two-character surname Dongfang

to mark out / to tag / to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to / to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)

imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死

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

model or template character / written slogan or phrase / mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)

worm-like invertebrate / mythical animal (see 獬豸) / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 153)

simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體｜繁体

character acquired through long habit / habits and properties

component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc, referred to as 青字頭｜青字头

sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)

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

turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折

strokes of a Chinese character

(music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram

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

one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜｜工尺谱

two-character surname Shangguan