人 rén
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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). -
noun
Kangxi radical 9
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Person (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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》) -
noun
everybody
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '人' 2; NCCED '人' 3) -
noun
adult
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '人' 3; NCCED '人' 4) -
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) -
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) -
proper noun
Human Realm
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: FGS translation standard: Human Realm (Tzu Chuang 2012)
Contained in
- 名人太会考(名人太會考) Ming Ren Tai Hui Kao
- 人民文学出版社(人民文學出版社) The People's Literature Publishing House
- 人妖 transvestite / transsexual / ladyboy
- 人手 manpower / staff / human hand
- 凯尔特人(凱爾特人) Celt
- 屈己从人(屈己從人) to bow oneself to be humble to others
- 户告人晓(戶告人曉) to make known to every household / to disseminate widely / to shout from the rooftops
- 人间(人間) the human world / the world
- 求人不如求己 if you want something done well, do it yourself
- 世界人权宣言(世界人權宣言) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 人云亦云 to echo what others say
- 世上人 mankind
- 大有人在 there are plenty of such people
- 贵人多忘(貴人多忘) an eminent person has short memory
- 矮人看场(矮人看場) a dwarf watches a scene / praising with inadequate knowledge
- 以人废言(以人廢言) to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects)
- 人潮 a tide of people
- 知人者智，自知者明 those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经
- 成人礼(成人禮) coming of age ceremony
- 收货人(收貨人) consignee
- 男人 man / men / male
- 借款人 the borrower
- 知人 to understand a person
- 吉人 a good person
- 换人(換人) to replace somebody (personnel, sports team player etc) / substitution
- 判若两人(判若兩人) to be a different person / not to be one's usual self
- 租地人投标票权(租地人投標票權) occupation franchise
- 借债人(借債人) debtor / borrower
- 司法人员(司法人員) judicial officer
- 让人羡慕(讓人羨慕) enviable / to be admired
- 名人 celebrity
- 苦行人 an ascetic
- 惨无人道(慘無人道) inhuman / brutal and unfeeling
- 小女人 dainty and delicate girl / concubine
- 人民政府 people's government
- 远小人(遠小人) lowly men kept at a distance
- 人始生有大命 from the start of their lives, people have a greater destiny
- 太空人 astronaut
- 美人 beauty / belle
- 人无完人(人無完人) nobody is perfect / everyone has their defect
- 西洋人 Westerner
- 男人不坏，女人不爱(男人不壞，女人不愛) women love bad guys
Also contained in
孙破虏吴夫人 、 门人 、 人法二执 、 人机界面 、 人大 、 出家人 、 人间性 、 人执 、 佛说八大人觉经
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 人美 (人美) 其人美且仁 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧盧令 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Lu Ling — count: 3