Learning Chinese: vocabulary of Unit 1

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Nouns

车站 chēzhàn: station / (bus) stop

地铁 dìtiě: subway / metro

公交车 gōngjiāochē: (city) bus

: road / street

zhàn: station / stop

Position words (locatives)

前面 qiánmiàn: in front, at the front

后面 hòumiàn: behind, at the back

旁边 pángbiān: next to, beside

左边 zuǒbiān: (the) left (side), on the left

右边 yòubiān: (the) right (side), on the right

zuǒ: left

yòu: right

Coverbs

cóng: from (starting point)

wǎng: toward, in the direction of

Verbs

zǒu: to walk / to leave

Simple directionals

回来 huílai: to come back (toward the speaker)

回去 huíqù: to go back, to return (away from the speaker)