| | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just | HSK 1 |
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| | front line / forefront | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first-hand | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first / most important; primary; foremost | |
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| | to pass an imperial examination | |
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| | second / number two / next / secondary | |
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| | residence / mansion | |
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| | level / rank / grade / rating | |
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| | Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity | |
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| | to fail an exam | |
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| | the second time / second / number two | |
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| | fifth | |
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| | sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list | |
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| | dinar (currency) (loanword) | |
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| | Indianapolis, Indiana | |
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| | Andes mountain chain of South America | |
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| | top notch; highest quality | |
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| | first under heaven / number one in the country | |
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| | sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc) | |
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| | thirtieth | |
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| | third person (grammar) | |
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| | housing / high-class residence | |
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| | Normandy, France | |
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| | first-class | |
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| | family status | |
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| | Indiana, US state | |
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| | first level | |
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| | residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations | |
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| | World War One | |
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| | (American) Indian / native American / indigenous peoples of the Americas | |
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| | (lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth | |
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| | (fig.) opening shot | |
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| | Third World | |
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| | to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China) | |
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| | order / sequence / one after another | |
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| | First Lady (wife of US president) | |
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| | the Andes mountain chain | |
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| | First World | |
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| | second tone in Mandarin / rising tone | |
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| | the Andes mountain range | |
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| | Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc) | |
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| | third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone | |
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| | secondary industry | |
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| | fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone | |
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| | tertiary sector of industry | |
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| | fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) | |
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| | The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir) | |
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| | to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China) | |
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| | First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866 | |
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| | second job | |
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| | Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France | |
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| | the person in charge / the head of the leadership group | |
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| | grade (i.e. quality) / rank | |
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| | family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family | |
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| | Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician | |
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| | fifth column (subversive group) | |
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| | the whole family is invited (idiom) | |
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| | American Indians | |
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| | first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone | |
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| | Dijon (France) | |
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| | mansion house / official residence | |
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| | Indus (constellation) | |
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| | Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式 | |
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| | Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945) | |
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| | step one / first step | |
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| | third party | |
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| | second round (of match, or election) | |
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| | Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician | |
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| | the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour | |
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| | second place | |
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| | in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing | |
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| | at first glance / at first sight | |
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| | fourth quarter (of financial year) | |
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| | Indiana, US state | |
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| | third quarter (of financial year) | |
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| | the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party | |
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| | the first time / first / number one | |
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| | the fourth estate; the press | |
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| | Beijing International Studies University (BISU) | |
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| | first-person shooter (video game genre) | |
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| | territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc) | |
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| | Type 2 diabetes | |
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| | the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc) | |
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| | first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive) | |
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| | next day / the morrow | |
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| | fourth quarter | |
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| | extensive residence / your house | |
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| | Giardiasis, a form of gastro-enteritis caused by infection of gut by Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite | |
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| | world's first | |
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| | Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | former residence | |
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| | (physics) Faraday cage | |
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| | first case / first instance / first time (sth is done) | |
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| | primary sector of industry | |
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| | first round (of match, or election) | |
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| | Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简 | |
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| | Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland | |
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