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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.

  • de: grammatical particle
  • dì: goal
  • dí: real

  • yī: one
  • yí: one(before falling) 一个人 yí gè rén = one person
  • yì: one(before high, rising, low) 一点儿 yìdiǎnr = a little

  • shì: to be

  • bù, bú: not

  • verb particle
  • liǎo: finish

  • rén: people

  • wǒ: I, me

  • zài: at

  • yǒu: have
  • yòu: again

  • tā: he; someone else, something else

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