他
JLPT HSK 1

tā
Left: person 亻/人, right: also/too 也 (shows a twisted creature, possibly scorpion, snake etc.)
A person twisting like this becomes another.

	们
JLPT HSK 1

men
Left: person 亻, right: gate 门/門
(A single door is not enough.) For the persons you need a gate, if they are many.

	你
JLPT HSK 1

nǐ
Left: person 亻, right: thus/therefore 尔 (A lying person appears small 小, that's therefore thus.)
This person is thus you.

	作
JLPT HSK 1

zuò
Left: a person 亻, right: suddenly, unexpectedly 乍 (The saw 乍 fells [the tree] suddenly.)
The person has a saw to make something.

	什
JLPT HSK 1

shén, shí
Left: person 亻/人, right: ten 十
Ten persons are miscellaneous.

	做
JLPT HSK 1

zuò
Left person 亻, right: therefore, reason 故 (If the old 古 (man) strikes 攵 then with a reason) [to strike 攵/攴 = hand 又 with a stick 卜]
The person has a reason to do sth.

	住
JLPT HSK 1

zhù
Left: person 亻, right: master 主 (I emphasize 丶, the king 王 is the master.)
A person is the master where he lives.

	候
JLPT HSK 1

hòu
In the middle vertically: stick 丨, left and right: marquis 侯 (The person 人 to whom another person ⺈ with an arrow 矢 bows down, is a marquis.) - Here: ユ as variation of: work, craft 工
When a person takes a stick 丨 to craft/carve 工 it into an arrow, you need to wait (until a later season).

	体
JLPT HSK 2

tǐ
Left: person 亻/人, right: root, origin, book 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
The person has his roots in the body.

	但
JLPT HSK 2

dàn
Left: person 亻, right: sunrise 旦 (The sun 日 over the horizon 一)
One person watches the sunrise, but ...

	您
JLPT HSK 2

nín
At top: "you" (informal speech) 你 (This person 亻is thus/therefore 尔 you [尔= A lying person appears small 小, that's thus/therefore ): The person is thus you.] ), below: heart 心
The informal "you" changes by adding the 'heart' into the formal address: "you".

	件
JLPT HSK 2

jiàn
Left: person 亻, right: cow 牛 (The head of a cow キ with only one horn ノ)
A person comes with a cow, which is his affair.

	便
JLPT HSK 2

biàn, pián
Left: person 亻, right: further/still more 更 (The sun 日 goes with each unit of length 丈 [= big 大 person with wide step] further and more.)
People (like it) furthermore, when it is convenient.

	假
JLPT HSK 3

jiǎ, jià
Left: person亻, right: (free interpretation: mine/pit) 叚 (In a hole 口 with a ladder 'E' you have the tool コ in your hand 又.)
For persons is the (work in) a mine: false.

	信
JLPT HSK 3

xìn
Left: person 亻/人, right: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口)
This person and his words are trustworthy.

	化
JLPT HSK 3

huà
Left: standing person 亻, right: ladle/spoon 匕 (here: sitting person),
If a standing person becomes a sitting person, it is a change.

	位
JLPT HSK 3

wèi
Left: person 亻/人, right: to stand 立
People are standing at their positions.

	像
JLPT HSK 3

xiàng
Left: person 亻, right: elephant 象 (A trunk ⺈ and two big ears 罒 make a pig 豕 appear like an elephant.)
A person resembling an elephant is an appearance.

	优
JLPT HSK 4

yōu
Left: person 亻, right: outstanding 尤 (Despite the broken leg 尢 [= 乚] the emphasis 丶 makes the big 大 person: outstanding)
Personen, who are outstanding are excellent.

	保
JLPT HSK 4

bǎo
Left: person 亻, right: stupid, foolish 呆 (a fence 囗 and a tree 木)
The person wants a fence for the tree to protect it. (Whereas a fenced 囗 tree 木 is in distress 困.)

	仅
JLPT HSK 4

jǐn
Left: person 亻, right: again, also 又 (image of a hand)
A person with only one hand, merely.

	使
JLPT HSK 4

shǐ
Left: person 亻/人, right: civil servant 吏 (A mouth 口 of a certain reach 丈 is expected from an official.) [丈 = big 大 step, length 3.3m]
This person is civil servant and can cause you to do sth.

	何
JLPT HSK 4

hé
Left: person 亻/人, right: possibility, can 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.)
The person can do what?

	例
JLPT HSK 4

lì
Left: person 亻, right: row 列 (A [back-]bone 歹 is exposed with a knife刂 in a row.)
A person queuing in a line/row sets an example.

	供
JLPT HSK 4

gōng, gòng
Left: person 亻, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together)
Person join together to provide an offering.

	伙
JLPT HSK 4

huǒ
Left: person 亻/人, right: fire 火
When people are at the fire, this is forming a community.

	值
JLPT HSK 4

zhí
Left: person 亻, right: straight, directly 直 (Ten 十 eyes 目 watch the base line __, which is straight.)
This person knows directly his value.

	仍
JLPT HSK 4

réng
Left: person 亻, right: therefore, thus 乃 (pregnancy belly in side view) [cf. pregnancy 孕, where a child 子 comes out of that womb 乃]
The person makes a "therefore" into a "still".

	价
JLPT HSK 4

jià, jie
Left: person 亻, right: between 介 (The person 人 in this armor 丌 is in-between)
The person 亻 pays to another person 人 for the armor 丌: a price.

	估
JLPT HSK 4

gū, gù
Left: person 亻, right: old 古 (originally: skull, but here better as image a tomb stone)
A person who is old (and experienced) is good in estimating.

	任
JLPT HSK 4

rèn
Left: person 亻, right: burden 壬 or scholar 士 with hat ノ
A person, who is assigned as a 'scholoar with hat', has official responsibility.

	伤
JLPT HSK 4

shāng
Left: person 亻, right: person lying down as a variant of 人, force 力
If you make a person into a lying person by means of force, you have probably injured him.

	仔
JLPT HSK 4

zī, zǐ, zǎi
Left: Person 亻, right: child 子 (... with an emphasized head 乛, body 丿 and two outstretched arms 一)
A person has to give attentions to small things, like chicks.

	俩
JLPT HSK 4

liǎ, liǎng
Left: person 亻, right: pair, both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.)
The persons, thus the pair, are both.

	停
JLPT HSK 4

tíng
Left: person 亻, right: pavilion, kiosk 亭 (Tall like a high 高 nail 丁, is this pavilion)
(When you travel you need a break:) The person is at the kiosk to stop.

	傅
JLPT HSK 4

fù
Left: person 亻, right: announce 尃 (just now 甫 with skillful hand 寸)
That person, who announces, just now with a skillful hand, is my master.

	修
JLPT HSK 4

xiū
From left: person 亻, stick 丨, to beat 攵 (hand 又 with stick ノ), hair 彡
A person puts by hand two sticks in his hair to remodel (decorate) it.

	仿
JLPT HSK 5

fǎng
Left: person 亻, right: direction, square 方
A person who (follows) in a direction is: imitating someone.

	偷
JLPT HSK 5

tōu
Left: person 亻, right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead gets into the body 月 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭])
The person assents the theft.

	代
JLPT HSK 5

dài
Left: person 亻, right: sabre 弋
The person gives the sabre (it's a heir) to the (next) generation.

	偿
JLPT HSK 5

cháng
Left: person 亻, right: taste(food) 尝 (If the small 小 under the cover 冖 tastes like a cloud 云, that's I want to: try/taste.) [cloud 云 = It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds]
The person tasted the food and will compensate the cost.

	似
JLPT HSK 5

sì
Left: person 亻, right: to use 以 (The scratch plow レ has cut a plow furrow 丶, which a person 人 uses.)
The people, we use/need shall be similar.

	佩
JLPT HSK 5

pèi
Left: person 亻, right: sail 几 (cf. wind 风) and cloth 巾
The person sees in the sail a piece of cloth, admires it and wants to wear it.

	佛
JLPT HSK 5

fó, fú
Left: person 亻, right: deny, negation 弗 (A bow 弓 with two strings || is to be denied.)
A person of denial (of needs) is the (godlike) buddha.

	俱
JLPT HSK 5

jù
Left: person 亻, right: tool 具 (The eye 目 sees on the table a tool)
The person has with his eye over the table an: entire choice.

	亿
JLPT HSK 5

yì
Left: person 亻, (here: "1"), right: 乙 at second position 乙 (Number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) (If you continue the line of 乙 to the upper left, you get an eight 8)
A "one" with 8 zeros -> 100 million.

	傻
JLPT HSK 5

shǎ
Left: person 亻, right: 囟 (TV-set 口 with screen 㐅, antenna 丶 on a stand 八; and 夂 sitting cross-legged
A person being in front of the TV cross-legged, becomes: stupid.

	倡
JLPT HSK 5

chàng
Left: person 亻, right: to flourish 昌 (Two suns 日 and it is flourishing.)
According to this person, there should be two suns: that was the proposal!

	伟
JLPT HSK 5

wěi
Left: person 亻, right: leather 韦 (Two layers 二 are separated with special sword 刀 to make leather)
(Clothing made of linen or similar was for ordinary people.) A person in leather appears imposing.

	倾
JLPT HSK 6

qīng
Left: person 亻, right: short while ago, area size qǐng 顷 (sitting person 匕, page, (fore)head 页/頁 (=head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Better left: change 化
If a person 亻turns to a sitting 匕 person, it's in the head, that is inclining.

	伐
JLPT HSK 6

fá
Left: person 亻/人, right: halberd 戈
The person used the halberd for cutting down (felling).

	伯
JLPT HSK 6

bó
Left: person 亻, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.)
The person with "white" (= the hair) is my elder oncle.

	仪
JLPT HSK 6

yí
Left: person 亻, right: justice 义 (It comes from the emphasized 丶 head of the person 人 with raised arms 乂)
The person of justice needs an apparatus for bringing ceremonies in appearance.

	伍
JLPT HSK 6

wǔ
Left: person 亻, right: five 五
Persons as 'five' are a military squad.

	侦
JLPT HSK 6

zhēn
Left: person 亻, right: faithful 贞 (Who divines 卜 for money 贝 must be faithful.)
A person especially faithful is asked for scouting and spying.

	储
JLPT HSK 6

chǔ
Left: person 亻, right: various 诸 (The words 讠/言 of the persons 者 are: various.)
The bank employee 亻 recommends with words 言 to the customer 者, he shall: save. OR: A person with various (things) has saved.

	仇
JLPT HSK 6

chóu, qiú
Left: person 亻, right: nine 九
Persons who come in ninths are your enemies.

	俘
JLPT HSK 6

fú
Left: person 亻, right: entrust 孚 (To the hand reaching down 爫, the child 子 is trusting.)
A person who trusts can (easily be) taken as prisoner.

	伪
JLPT HSK 6

wěi
Left: person 亻, right: to act/behave as 为 (A very strongly emphasized force acts as such.)
A person who acts like this is false!

	佳
JLPT HSK 6

jiā
Left: person 人, right: 圭 = 2x earth 土 as piled earth path cf. street 街)
The person strutting on the mounds of earth (= a street) is of excellent beauty.

	俯
JLPT HSK 6

fǔ
Left: person 亻, right: seat of government 府 (The building 广 in which it is handed over 付 [to person 亻with a skillful hand 寸], is the seat of the government.)
A persons shall at the seat of government look down and stoop.

	伦
JLPT HSK 6

lún
Left: person 亻, right: arrange, set up 仑 (When a person 人 turns into a sitting person 匕, it is well arranged.)
A person, who is "well arranged" thinks in terms of coherence and relationships.

	仁
JLPT HSK 6

rén
Left: person 亻/人, right: two 二
A person is like two, if it is benevolent.

	倦
JLPT HSK 6

juàn
Left: person 亻, right: reel, spool 卷 (security guard 龹 [= person 人 with high lifted arms 丷 and two barrier bars 二], slumped person 㔾-)
When a person as a security guard lifted the arms and then slumps down, he is tired.

	僵
JLPT HSK 6

jiāng
Left: Person 亻, right: 畺 (3x 2 rice fields)
A person who (has to walk) 3 times over two rice fields can thereby deadlock or get stiff.

	侨
JLPT HSK 6

qiáo
Left: person 亻, right: tall 乔 (top: 夭, but here: sky 天: [Sky-天-long legs 丿| make tall.])
In particular persons, that are tall become emigrants.

	侠
JLPT HSK 6

xiá
Left: person 亻, right: squeeze in 夹 (A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed, [traditional 俠] HERE: Husband with two kids on the arms)
The person who is a husband with two kids on the arms is brave and chivalrous.

	侧
JLPT HSK 6

cè, zè, zhāi
Left: person 亻, right: standard/rule 则 (money 贝 is cut/split 刂 by rules)
The person observing the rules (=referee) stands at the side (of the play ground).

	债
JLPT HSK 6

zhài
Left: person 亻, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean responsibilities.)
A person bears the responsibility for his: debt.

	佣
JLPT HSK 6

yōng, yòng
Left: person 亻, right: to use, need 用 (A fence 用 can be used.)
The person, who is needed is the: employed servant.

	侣
JLPT HSK 6

lǚ
Left: person 亻, right: two mouths 吕
Like one person with two mouths: partners / cohabitee.

	侄
JLPT HSK 6

zhí
Left: person 亻, right: to arrive, reach 至 (From the sky 一 an arrow 厶 comes to the earth 土: reaching it.)
The person, who just has arrived is the nephew.

	仗
JLPT HSK 6

zhàng
Left: Person 亻, right: unit of length 丈 (Big person 大 with wide step)
A person with wide steps during the battle.

	伺
JLPT HSK 6

cì, sì
Left: person 亻/人, right: civil servant, administer 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
(He does not like to work?) A person as a civil servant wants to: wait and watch.

	僻
JLPT HSK 6

pì
Left: person 亻, right: anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, opening 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture)
A person who does anal penetration is "remote".

	俭
JLPT HSK 6

jiǎn
Left: person 亻, right: together 佥 (A person 人 as one 一 is with three ツ together.)
If it is (enough) for a person to be in a "together", he is frugal.

	伶
JLPT HSK 6

líng
Left: person 亻, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
The person, giving commands should be clever.

	侈
JLPT HSK 6

chǐ
Left: person 亻, right: much, many 多
(At an invitaion:) If the persons are too many, it is exaggerating.

	侃
JLPT HSK 6

kǎn
Left: person 亻, right: mouth 口, river 川
(He talks a lot:) The person with a mouth like a river is: upright and honest.

	袱
JLPT HSK 6

fú
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: subsue 伏 (A person 亻/人 is like a dog 犬, when it subdues.)
With clothes a person can (carry) a dog, enwrapped as: a bundle.

	侥
JLPT HSK 6

jiǎo
Left: person 亻, right: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (variation of halberd 戈 and table )
The person who stepped with the halbered over the table did so (... without falling): by mere luck.

	倔
JLPT HSK 6

jué
Left: person 亻, right: bow, crouch 屈 (The buttock 尸 [=butt's crack] comes out 出 when crouching. = "plumber's crack or smile")
A person who (always) is crouching becomes: crabby.

	俐
JLPT HSK 6

lì
Left: person 亻, right: profit, favorable 利 (Harvesting rice plants 禾 with a knife刂 is favorable and brings profit.)
A person making profit is clever.

	阀
JLPT no HSK

fá
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: to cut down, fell 伐 (A person 亻with a halberd 戈 is cutting down.)
It's like a gate with a guarding person (person with a halberd): the valve.

	俄
JLPT no HSK

é
Left: person 亻, right: I,me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself)
The person who has a halberd in his hand (which is me), acts very suddenly.

	佑
JLPT no HSK

yòu
Left: person 亻, right: right 右 (= The hand that feeds the mouth 口.)
The person's hand feeds sth. into the mouth, when: helping.

	荷
JLPT no HSK

hé, hè
Top: plant 艹, bottom: "what" 何? (Two persons 亻, 丁 carrying a load 口 with that bar 一
For the transport of the plants the two persons use their shoulders to carry that load.

	俏
JLPT no HSK

qiào
Left: person 亻, right: alike, resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.)
(IQ-test or memory-game:) Persons, who detect the alikes are smart.

	佐
JLPT no HSK

zuǒ
Left: person 亻/人, right: left 左 (The hand that supports when building 工)
The person at left assists.

	侍
JLPT no HSK

shì
Left: person 亻/人, right: temple 寺 (Made of earth 土 and built with skillful hands 寸)
The person is in the temple as a: servant.

	伽
JLPT no HSK

qié
Left: person 亻, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
The person adds a: 'ga' or 'gā'

	雁
JLPT no HSK

yàn
From left: cliff 厂, person 亻, bird 隹
On the cliff and (big as) a person is this bird: the wild goose.

	侬
JLPT no HSK

nóng
Left: person 亻, right: peasant 农 (he wears a cover 冖 at the clothes 衣 [because he has to go out in any weathers])
The person as a peasant, that is: you!

	佃
JLPT no HSK

diàn
Left: person 亻, right: rice field 田
The person at the rice field is the tenant farmer.

	仆
JLPT no HSK

pū, pú
Left: person 亻, right: oracle, forking road 卜
The person who prostrates himself from the standing 丨 forward 丶 is the servant.

	倪
JLPT no HSK

ní
Left: person 亻, right: fragment, child 兒/儿 (simplified to 儿, with mortar 臼 and legs 儿)
The person, who is like a 'child' is: feeble.

	倩
JLPT no HSK

qiàn
Left: person 亻, right: green/blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
A person in his youth is beautiful.

	佬
JLPT no HSK

lǎo
Left: person 亻, right: old, experienced 老 (old man 耂 as a sitting person 匕)
The 'person' of the old man is: male.

	伢
JLPT no HSK

yá
Left: person 亻, right: tusk 牙 (also: sprout, bud cf. 芽)
The person, who is a sprout, is a child.

	倭
JLPT no HSK

wō
Left: person 亻, right: entrust 委 (Rice plant 禾 can women 女 be entrusted.)
(especially trustworthy) The person who can be entrusted is the: Japanese.

	佯
JLPT no HSK

yáng
Left: person 亻, right: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep)
A person pretending to be a sheep is deceitful.

	伊
JLPT no HSK

yī
Left: person 亻, right: to administer, rule 尹 (.. with a stick ノ in the hand you administer)
The person with the stick in his hand point to him/her.

	俾
JLPT no HSK

bǐ
Left: person 亻, right: vulgar/low 卑 (A such untidy field 田 is tenfold 十 vulgar.)
The person behaves vulgarly and wants to cause something.

	倚
JLPT no HSK

yǐ
Left: person 亻, right: strange, odd 奇 (There is a big 大 possibility (opportunity) 可, but it looks strange.) [possibility 可 = The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.]
A person has big possibilities, if he can lean on sth.

	俨
JLPT no HSK

yǎn
Left: person 亻, right: tight, thicket 严 (With a cover 一 the hollow peak 业 of the cliff 厂 is tight and strict.)
A person who appears tight, is majestically.

	俟
JLPT no HSK

sì
Left: person 亻, right: end-particle 矣 (If the nose 厶 is hit by the arrow 矢, it is the end) [arrow 矢 = An arrow ノ in the sky 天]
When the person is at the end, it means: 'until ...'

	偎
JLPT no HSK

wēi
Left: person 亻, right: awe/reverence 畏 (because he has rice fields 田 and (good) clothes 衣)
(Don't jump all over your partner right away:) A person shows awe/respect when cuddling.

	侏
JLPT no HSK

zhū
Left: person 亻, right: vermilion 朱 (A branch of a young [= not yet] tree 未 has sth. red ノ =apple?)
This person is like sth. small ノ at the young, unfinished tree: The dwarf.

	偕
JLPT no HSK

xié
Left: person 亻, right: all 皆 (I compare 比 but the shine ノ of the sun 日 make it white 白: all & everything!)
A person with 'all' stands for: together.

	傩
JLPT no HSK

nuó
Left: person 亻, right: difficult 难 (By hand 又 [to catch] a bird 隹 is difficult.)
Persons have difficulties with: exorcism.

	筏
JLPT no HSK

fá
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: to cut down, fell 伐 (The person 亻with the halberd 戈 is cutting down.)
The bamboo should be cut down to make a: raft.

	佚
JLPT no HSK

yì
Left: person 亻, right: to lose 失 (I emphasize ノ the husband 夫 will lose.)
A person will lose, if he is lazy.

	僭
JLPT no HSK

jiàn
Left: person 亻, right: 朁 (2x sky 天 with a waving hand ⌞, sun 日)
When 2 people wave as if from the sky above the sun, they have usurped sth.

	傣
JLPT no HSK

dǎi
Left: person 亻, right: safe, peaceful, Thailand 泰
The persons who are as three 三 persons 人 by the water are the peaceful 'Dai'.

	傀
JLPT no HSK

kuǐ
Left: person 亻, right: devil 鬼
(Often used in a puppet shows) The person of the devil is a puppet.

	偌
JLPT no HSK

ruò
Left: person 亻, right: seem as if 若 (The plant 艹 to the right 右 seems as if.)
The person (cuts) the plant with the right (hand). You do: such so.

	儡
JLPT no HSK

lěi
Left: person 亻, right: 畾 (three fields 田)
(You can only work on one field) A person, who is (at the same time) on three rice fields is: a puppet.

	佼
JLPT no HSK

jiǎo
Left: person 亻, right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅)
(Beauty makes popular) The person is in exchange because he is handsome.