Grade 5 · second semester, Lesson 1

Grade 5 Lesson 1 Chinese characters

These are the 20 characters taught in Grade 5, second semester, Lesson 1. Every one shows Zhuyin and Pinyin, its meaning, its radical and its stroke count. In CharGem your child traces each one, then writes it from memory. Grade 1 is free; this grade is part of the subscription.

This lesson's characters

  • ㄕㄚˇ·shǎfoolish, silly, stupidradical · 13 strokes傻笑 shǎ xiàoto giggle傻眼 shǎ yǎnstunned別再傻看著。Stop gawking.
  • ㄒㄩㄢˊ·xuánto hang, to hoist, to suspendradical · 20 strokes懸掛 xuán guàto suspend懸念 xuán niànsuspense in a movie, play etc他的畫被懸掛在牆上。His pictures were hung on the wall.
  • ㄅㄧˋ·numbness, paralysisradical · 13 strokes痺證 bì zhènglocalized pain disorder麻痺 má bìparalysis
  • ㄈㄨˊ·amulet, charm, markradical · 11 strokes符合 fú héin accordance with相符 xiāng fúto match這些數字總數不符。These figures don't add up.
  • ㄌㄧㄥˊ·língto hear, to listenradical · 11 strokes聆聽 líng tīngto listen聆訊 líng xùnhearing
  • ㄉㄧˋ·to deliver, to hand over, substituteradical · 13 strokes遞增 dì zēngto increase by degrees遞給 dì gěito hand it to請把奶油遞給我。Pass me the butter, please.
  • ㄆㄞˋ·pàiturbulent, surging, the sound of waves crashingradical · 12 strokes澎湃 péng pàisurging
  • ㄎㄢˇ·kǎna pit, a hollow; a trigramradical · 7 strokes
  • ㄎㄜˇ·used in 坎坷: bumpy; full of setbacksradical · 8 strokes坎坷
  • ㄆㄥˊ·[一]pēng[二]péngused in 澎湃: surgingradical · 15 strokes澎湃 澎濞
  • ㄧㄣˊ·yína boundary; a limitradical · 9 strokes一望無垠
  • ㄒㄧㄢˋ·xiàna limit; to restrictradical · 9 strokes門限 戶限
  • ㄌㄧㄥˊ·línga hill; an imperial tombradical · 11 strokes丘陵 山陵
  • ㄅㄟˇ·běinorthradical · 5 strokes東西南北 漠北
  • ㄌㄧㄠˇ·[一]liǎo[二]liàoclear, to understand; (liào) to watch from high upradical · 17 strokes明瞭 瞭解
  • ㄐㄧ·a mark, a trace; a footprintradical · 13 strokes足跡 蹤跡
  • ㄧㄤˇ·yǎngto look up; to admireradical · 6 strokes敬仰 景仰
  • ㄈㄨˇ·to bow one's head; to look downradical · 10 strokes俯允 俯念
  • ㄅㄧˋ·jade green; bluish greenradical · 14 strokes碧草 碧波盪漾
  • ㄧㄤˋ·yàngto ripple; to overflowradical · 14 strokes蕩漾 漾奶