人 rén
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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). -
rén
noun
Kangxi radical 9
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Person (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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) -
rén
noun
everybody
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '人' 2; NCCED '人' 3) -
rén
noun
adult
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '人' 3; NCCED '人' 4) -
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) -
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)
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- 人不可貌相,海水不可斗量 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot
- 邀买人心(邀買人心) to buy popular support; to court favor
- 仙人走兽(仙人走獸) celestial beings and roof beasts; roof corner decorations
- 知人 to understand a person
- 受托人(受託人) trustee
- 拍拍屁股走人 to make oneself scarce / to slip away / to take French leave
- 得人 win the people
- 灭绝人性(滅絕人性) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
- 跟人 to marry (of woman)
- 差强人意(差強人意) barely passable
- 令人激赏(令人激賞) to lead people to be full of admiration
- 有钱人(有錢人) the rich; the wealthy
- 何人 who
- 印加人 Inca [person]
- 醉人 intoxicating; fascinating
- 反人道罪 a crime against humanity
- 人尽其材(人盡其材) employ one's talent to the fullest; everyone gives of their best
- 圉人 horse trainer; groom
- 鬼怕恶人(鬼怕惡人) ghosts are afraid of evil too; an evil person fears someone even more evil
- 海外华人(海外華人) overseas Chinese
- 人工树脂(人工樹脂) epoxy resin
- 人称(人稱) to be known as ; grammatical person
- 威尼斯商人 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- 恶言伤人(惡言傷人) to insult; to direct bad language at somebody; to slag off
- 个中人(個中人) a person in the know
- 正人 an upstanding person ; head of affairs
- 军人(軍人) serviceman; soldier
- 人生朝露 human life as the morning dew; ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
- 玉人吹箫(玉人吹簫) virtuoso piper wins a beauty
- 个人(個人) individual; personal
- 燧人氏 Suirenshi
- 边缘人(邊緣人) marginalized people
- 兼人之量 to excel the capacity of others by two times
- 超人 superhuman; exceptional
- 三人行,则必有我师(三人行,則必有我師) If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)
- 人各有所好 everyone has their likes and dislikes; there is no accounting for taste; chacun son goût
- 引唱人 cantor
- 宰人 to overcharge; to rip somebody off
- 人肉搜索引擎 human flesh search engine; a large-scale collective effort to find details about a person or event
- 人类免疫缺陷病毒(人類免疫缺陷病毒) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- 人海 a multitude; a sea of people
- 合伙人 partner; associate
- 科技人员(科技人員) scientific and technical staff
- 叔丈人 wife's uncle
- 黄种人(黃種人) yellow man; Mongoloid
- 发好人卡(發好人卡) to reject (by labeling a nice guy)
- 人位相宜 to be the right person for the job
- 妄人 presumptuous and ignorant person
- 愚人 stupid person; ignoramus
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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: 1392
- 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: 510
- 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: 482
- 卷28 志第23 百官下 Volume 28 Treatises 23: Government Offices 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 468
- 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: 22
- 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: 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 狄人 (狄人) 狄人迫逐黎侯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧旄丘 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Mao Qiu — count: 3