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Here are the 10 most common Chinese Characters.
If you learn them, you will already have the feeling you know a little how to read when walking around the streets in China.
However, you will still have to study a lot before you reach 3,500 and 4,000 characters, the average number a high school-educated Chinese person is thought to know.
的
- de: grammatical particle
- dì: goal
- dí: real
一
- yī: one
- yí: one (before falling tone) 一个人 yí gè rén = one person
- yì: one (before high, rising, low tones) 一点儿 yìdiǎnr = a little
是
- shì: to be
不
- bù: not (before high, rising, low tones)
- bú: not (before falling tone)
了
- verb particle
- liǎo: finish
人
- rén: people
我
- wǒ: I, me
在
- zài: at
有
- yǒu: have
- yòu: again
他
- tā: he; someone else, something else