| 虾 | xiā | used in 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]; shrimp; prawn | 26 | Lv 68 |
| 的 | de | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs; really and truly; a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4]); (bound form) bull's-eye; target | 22 | Lv 1 |
| 把 | bǎ | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}); handle | 14 | Lv 1 |
| 之后 | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | 12 | Lv 4 |
| 分钟 | fēn zhōng | minute | 9 | Lv 4 |
| 蒸 | zhēng | to evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old); finely chopped firewood (old) | 9 | Lv 118 |
| 头 | tóu | head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; suffix for nouns; CL:個|个[ge4] | 8 | Lv 6 |
| 好 | hǎo | good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to | 8 | Lv 1 |
| 蛋 | dàn | egg; oval-shaped thing; variant of 蜑[Dan4]; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] | 8 | Lv 15 |
| 出 | chū | to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc; variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) | 7 | Lv 3 |
| 开 | kāi | to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format | 7 | Lv 5 |
| 汤 | tāng | rushing current; soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled; surname Tang | 7 | Lv 30 |
| 熬 | áo | to boil; to simmer; to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure | 7 | Lv 35 |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right; to hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery); (bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong | 6 | Lv 2 |
| 倒 | dào | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit; to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet | 6 | Lv 13 |
| 加入 | jiā rù | to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in | 6 | Lv 10 |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4] | 6 | Lv 1 |
| 然后 | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards | 6 | Lv 2 |
| 锅 | guō | pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1] | 6 | Lv 69 |
| 一 | yī | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | 5 | Lv 1 |