人 rén

1. rén noun person / people / a human being
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: The measure word 个 is most frequently used. For example, 他们四个人 'the four of them' (Lao She, 2003, p. 224). However, other measure words, such as 口 and 名, may also be used. No measure word is used when referring to large numbers of people. For example, 数百万人 'millions of people.' (VOA, 2015-07-25) 人 is a common word in both modern and literary Chinese (Kroll 2015 '人' 1). 人 is the eighth most frequently used word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (CCD '人' 1; FE '人' 1; Ho 2002, '人' 1, NCCED '人' 1).
2. rén noun Kangxi radical 9
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Person (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. rén noun a kind of person
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 中国人 'a Chinese person,' 北京人 'a person frm Beijing,' or 发言人 'spokesperson.' (CCD '人' 4; Ho 2002, '人' 2, NCCED '人' 2) In literary Chinese, the formula [name] ... [place of birth] 人 is frequently used in biographies. For example, 孫子武者，齊人也 'Sun Zi was a military strategist from the state of Qi.' (Shiji, Biographies of Sun Tzu and Wu Qi《史記‧孫子吳起列傳》)
4. rén noun everybody
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '人' 2; NCCED '人' 3)
5. rén noun adult
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '人' 3; NCCED '人' 4)
6. rén noun somebody / others
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '人' 5; NCCED '人' 5) For example, 祥子几乎和人打起来 'Xiangzi nearly got into a fight with some people.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 189) This sense is also used in literary Chinese (Kroll 2015 '人' 2). For example in literary Chinese, 其恕乎！己所不欲，勿施於人。 'Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' (Lunyu 17:24, trans. by Legge 1861)
7. rén noun an upright person
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Referring to a person's moral character (CCD '人' 6; NCCED '人' 6)
8. rén proper noun Human Realm
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: FGS translation standard: Human Realm (Tzu Chuang 2012)

Contained in

• 人类基因组计划(人類基因組計劃) Human Genome Project
• 游人如织(遊人如織) crowded with visitors / packed with tourists
• 大男人 very masculine guy / a real man / (used ironically) a grown man
• 惊人之举(驚人之舉) to astonish people (with a miraculous feat)
• 人均 per capita
• 租地人投标票权(租地人投標票權) occupation franchise
• 单人间(單人間) single room (hotel)
• 人群 a crowd
• 淑人君子 a virtuous gentleman
• 山顶洞人(山頂洞人) Upper Cave Man
• 皇天不负苦心人(皇天不負苦心人) Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries . If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
• 引人注意 to attract attention / eye-catching / conspicuous
• 人行道 sidewalk
• 没有人烟(沒有人煙) uninhabited
• 学人(學人) a scholar
• 无人战斗航空载具(無人戰鬥航空載具) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) / combat drone / drone
• 伤残人员(傷殘人員) the injured / wounded personnel
• 人身攻击(人身攻擊) personal attack
• 才气过人(才氣過人) an outstanding talent / surpassing insight and acumen
• 人本主义心理学(人本主義心理學) humanistic psychology
• 朝暮人 somebody about to die
• 吃人家的嘴软，拿人家的手短(吃人家的嘴軟，拿人家的手短) the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach
• 傍人篱壁(傍人籬壁) to depend on others
• 地勤人员(地勤人員) (airport) ground crew
• 求人 to ask for help / to ask a favor / to recruit talented people
• 求人不如求己 if you want something done well, do it yourself
• 党外人士(黨外人士) non-party members
• 普通人 ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
• 瓜无滚圆，人无十全(瓜無滾圓，人無十全) no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect
• 人字拖 flip-flops
• 含血喷人(含血噴人) to make false accusations against sb
• 接人 to meet a person
• 危地马拉人(危地馬拉人) Guatemalan (person)
• 人传人(人傳人) transmitted person-to-person
• 悲天悯人(悲天憫人) to be distressed at the state of the world and pity the fate of mankind
• 寡人 the lone one / a ruler's way of refering to himself
• 人尖儿(人尖兒) outstanding individual / person of great ability
• 居人 inhabitant
• 人民 the people ; common people
• 库尔德人(庫爾德人) Kurdish person or people
• 便人 somebody who happens to be on hand for an errand

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罽賓人 、 出家人 、 人物画 、 经济学人 、 活人剑 、 人法 、 人工语言 、 因人 、 吠提哂夫人 、 八人地

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• 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1394
• 卷四十八　　　　志第三十八　　百官三 Volume 48 Treatises 43: Official Posts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 814
• 卷四十九上　　　志第三十九上　百官四上 Volume 49a Treatises 44: Official Posts 4a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 606
• 卷七十四 志第五十 職官三 Volume 74 Treatises 50: Official Posts 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 526
• 卷四十一　志第二十二:　儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage History of Jin 金史 — count: 508
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 481
• 卷28　志第23 百官下 Volume 28 Treatises 23: Government Offices 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 469
• 卷四十九下　　　志第三十九下　百官四下 Volume 49b Treatises 45: Official Posts 4b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 441
• 卷四十七　　　　志第三十七　　百官二 Volume 47 Treatises 42: Official Posts 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 436
• 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 389

Collocations

• 一人 (一人) 繫一人之本 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 15
• 硕人 (碩人) 碩人俁俁 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧簡兮 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Jian Xi — count: 12
• 人刺 (人刺) 衞人刺其上也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧牆有茨 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Qiang You Ci — count: 8
• 谮人 (譖人) 彼譖人者 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧巷伯 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Xiang Bo — count: 5
• 候人 (候人) 候人 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧曹‧候人 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Hou Ren — count: 4
• 谅人 (諒人) 不諒人只 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧柏舟 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Bo Zhou — count: 4
• 衞人 (衞人) 衞人化其上 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧谷風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Gu Feng — count: 4
• 周人 (周人) 周人怨思焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧揚之水 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Yang Zhi Shui — count: 4
• 二人 (二人) 維予二人 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧揚之水 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Yang Zhi Shui — count: 4
• 佼人 (佼人) 佼人僚兮 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧陳‧月出 Lessons from the states - Odes of Chen - Yue Chu — count: 3