· 11 lists · 442 words
People, family and feelings
Family, relatives, character, relationships, feelings.
What holds these lists together
The family words are the first place where Chinese draws lines English does not. A brother or a sister is almost never just that: an older brother is 哥哥, a younger one 弟弟, an older sister 姐姐, a younger one 妹妹. The grandparents differ by side: your father’s mother is 奶奶, your mother’s mother 姥姥 in the north and 外婆 in the south. The same words reach beyond the family: a child calls a friendly man of its parents’ age 叔叔, uncle, without any relation at all. Feelings bring a second surprise. A word such as 高兴 needs no verb "to be" — 我很高兴 is a whole sentence, and the 很 in it is a link more than a "very". The lists climb from happy and sad to the finer shades of feeling and the words of psychology.
The eleven lists
Spread across the levels
The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.
| Level | Words | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43 | 10 % |
| 2 | 40 | 9 % |
| 3 | 119 | 27 % |
| 4 | 127 | 29 % |
| 5 | 113 | 26 % |
Practise this category
Multiple choice and gaps, across all eleven lists and all 442 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.