Chinese Beginner Vocabulary

Set 1

If you're new to Chinese this is the page to start with on Lexis Rex. Below is a small set of words to begin learning, go through the set and each day learn two or three or more new words. Once you know a handful of words, you can start playing our games to reinforce your familiarity with them and start building your vocabulary and game scores. When you have learnt the whole set, there are 9 more Beginner sets to continue with, or you can try out the Intermediate games.

English		Pinyin

bird	鸟	niǎo
one	一	yī
three	三	sān
two	二	èr
face	脸	liǎn
hand	手	shǒu
head	头	tóu
heart	心脏	xīn zàng
door	门	mén
home	家	jiā
light	灯	dēng
table	桌子	zhuō zi
car	汽车	qì chē
shirt	衬衫	chèn shān
to drink	喝	hē
to eat	吃	chī
to hold	握	wò
to listen	听	tīng
to look	看	kàn
to run	跑	pǎo
to talk	说话	shuō huà
to turn	转	zhuǎn
river	河流	hé liú
boy	男孩	nán hái
father	父亲	fù qīn
friend	朋友	péng yǒu
girl	女孩	nǚ hái
man	男人	nán rén
mother	母亲	mǔ qīn
son	儿子	ér zi
woman	女人	nǚ rén
book	书本	shū běn
school	学校	xué xiào
Monday	星期一	xīng qī yī
Tuesday	星期二	xīng qī èr

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