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人
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Definitions
- 1. person; people
Example Sentences
1 shown我從來沒對任何 人 說起過這個。
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Words Containing 人
loved by all
an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom)
well-informed source; person with inside information
needleworker
armed forces
man-eating (beast)
to be dependent upon sb
lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom)
person
sick person
a cut above others
to be severe with oneself and lenient with others (idiom)
lovers
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
to gain the initiative by striking first (idiom); to preempt
dwelling
sphinx
see 蜑家[dàn jiā]
to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
life has its ups and downs (idiom)
a match for ten thousand enemies
Maltese (person)
to meet a person
to shock
clansman
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
insured person
to make oneself scarce
gossip is a fearful thing (idiom)
the EU Sakharov prize for human rights
populous
father (as a social role)
to recognize people (of babies)
the second person
married man; husband (as a social role)
to take advantage of sb in an unguarded moment (idiom)
minor (i.e. person under 18)
a widow (a widow's way of referring to herself in former times)
Israelite
ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times
a galaxy of talent (idiom)
sexy
(Internet slang) shocking
the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war
someone
human warmth
synthetic fiber
patron saint
three women makes a crowd
see 人往高處走，水往低處流|人往高处走，水往低处流[rén wǎng gāo chù zǒu , shuǐ wǎng dī chù liú]
population density
an official (in former times)
(fig.) adaptable; able to deal with various kinds of people and situations
fisherman
a charming man enjoys charming pursuits (idiom)
to surpass others; outstanding
(human) penis (TCM)
learned person; person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship
transvestite
modern man
servant
pedestrian-vehicle mixed use
Romani, an ethnic group of Europe
lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom)
the elderly
network planner
neighbor
vagrant
margarine
to personalize
septuagenarian
herdsman (of horses)
plaintiff
Human Rights in China (New York-based expatriate PRC organization)
to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
participant
to buy popular support
to know a lot of people
Hong Kong person or people
to jump into a well to rescue sb else (idiom); fig. to help others at the risk to oneself
(not) a single person
idol (i.e. statue for worship)
Russian (person)
man-eating shark
origin of mankind
lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom)
civil servant
resolute person
the world
applicant
sb condemned by history (idiom)
robot
a flower may blossom again, but a person cannot get young again (proverb)
to fool people (idiom)
Hobbit
I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself)
husband (arch.)
(my, your) own person
to vanish
upright gentleman
beanbag
Georgian (person)
to win people's hearts
black dwarf (pejorative term for non-Han people)
sb who happens to be on hand for an errand
a person in the know
an experienced person
a suspect
to injure sb
the elderly
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.
one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
Renminbi (RMB)
(mail or email) sender
recipient (of mail or a message)
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
familiar
recruiting coordinator
ordinary person
labor cost
Sadducees
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
moviemaker
working class
human relationships
to have qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking
perfect person
ginseng
Kurdish person or people
see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bié ren qiān lu:2 nǐ bá jué zi]
Byelorussian (person)
white man or woman; Caucasian
rich person
to the satisfaction of everyone
(upholstered) armchair
hard to fathom a person's mind (idiom)
to give away
non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC) (transportation)
to conduct oneself
wife
man-made
mermaid
human organ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
everybody
to dare to be first
the guilty party files the suit
disciple
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
deaf person
hostage
a bird-watcher
a Republican party member
Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)
a dog threatens based on master's power (idiom); to use one's position to bully others
predecessor
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom)
(idiom) to refer to sth by the name its owners use
defender
V-shape; chevron; herringbone
to make an exhibition of oneself
guardian
loser
to care for other's children as one's own
a conservative
debtor
those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949
to push sb too far
Han Chinese person or people
Goth (e.g. Ostrogoth or Visigoth)
bard
non-party member
uninhabited
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you.
inhuman
shepherd
\Weird Al\ Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs
wife's father (father-in-law)
to cause a lot of trouble
foreigner's certificate of residence
known to everyone
to bemoan the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind
pressing
the lender
person in charge
Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through.
to be lacking in human character
meteorologist
the Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians
sweetheart
other people
non-party members
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
number of people
misanthrope
leaser
annoying
lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom)
staff member
popular front
worker
outsider
to exceed all expectations
demography
(coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight)
an abortion
adult
under one's own name
(brand or organization) ambassador
the injured
man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people
executioner (hangman)
the person who shares your bed
to get hyped up in front of an audience
to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc)
to scare people
to bring up (a child)
personage
to take advantage of sb's precarious position
a Manchu
rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown
a queue of people
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[wéi kè duō · yǔ guǒ]
a multitude
righteous man
other people
people's expectations
lazy person
newcomer
fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking
oneness of heaven and humanity
Renmin University of China
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily
monk
to be of service to others
man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears
number of people killed
stranger
see 人財兩空|人财两空[rén cái liǎng kōng]
planner
to start a new life; to make a fresh start
an outstanding talent (idiom)
construction worker
personal safety
choice of person
Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn]
each person
horse trainer
humane
inhabitant
man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature
Sherpa
retinue
the Philistines, who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC
to excite
Rockman or Mega Man (video game series)
expert (in a field)
my wife (humble)
artificial satellite
The Flintstones (TV Series)
Japanese person; the Japanese
Swiss (person)
oral inflation
Los Angeles Lakers
a Saudi
smooth talker
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
proposer
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so)
to keep a close eye on sb (idiom)
rickshaw puller
a hermaphrodite
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
double bed
schizoid personality disorder (SPD)
duchess
artificial
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
(idiom) thought-provoking
to attract attention
rule of man
(military) human wave attack
Rain Man
user interface
overseas Chinese
census
the American people
author (of a manuscript)
everyone
Qin Yueren (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills
scary
human sympathy
favorable geographical and social conditions (idiom); good location and the people satisfied
manned orbiting space station
Mongol
high-risk group (med.)
sign of human habitation
centenarian
(idiom) to pose
pupil (of the eye)
African (person)
race (of people)
madman
wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust
a stranger
to swear or curse (at people)
a man
Hui person
to lose consciousness
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom)
to astonish people (with a miraculous feat)
Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square
ordinary person
beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom)
Azerbaijan (person)
Help others, and others may help you (idiom).
(law) client
beekeeper
civil rights activist
renminbi yuan (RMB), PRC currency unit
poor people
person from Shandong
(idiom) just passable
Gypsy
transmitted person-to-person
thought-provoking
(idiom) thriving; (of a city) populous and wealthy; (of a family) large and prosperous
What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)
Zulu people
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily
slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
living person
to bully intolerably (idiom)
rich person
manhole
Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)
robotics
bird-catcher
dissociative identity disorder
person who is crying their eyes out, whose face is wet with tears
serviceman
a guide
appellee (side that won in trial court, whose victory is being appealed by losing side)
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
known by everyone (idiom); well known
person
Knowledge is not innate to man, how can we overcome doubt?
(Chinese) National People's Congress
terrifying
consignee
physiognomy (judgment of a person's fate, character etc, based on facial features)
supervisor
Qing dynasty person
Neanderthal man
Mexican
personification
convincing
(idiom) unprecedented
snowman
pleasant
place of cultural interest
to hand someone the swordhilt (idiom)
ten thousand people
human face, beast's heart (idiom); two-faced
to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously
foreigner
person without identification papers, a normal residence permit or a source of income
Lithuanian (person)
contemporary
to judge people based on their success or failure (idiom)
tongues are wagging (idiom)
(Internet slang) huge crowds of people (emphatic form of 人[rén])
merchant
to act as though there were nobody else present
Command right and you will be obeyed cheerfully. (idiom)
there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom)
Ukrainian (person)
(official accolade) advanced individual; exemplary individual
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom)
overbearing
Human Rights law (Hong Kong)
debt of gratitude
puppet show
interested party
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[féng jì cái]
human rights
attempted murder
prehistoric man
middle-aged and elderly people
persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)
to know best by personal experience
Suiren, legendary inventor of fire
Sahrawi (person)
(idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially
Kazakh person
to fall out with sb and become hostile
number of infected persons
to take the blame for sb else
head-hunter
minor divinity concerned with marriage
Los Angeles Lakers (NBA team)
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
universally admired
newsman
instructing with tireless zeal (idiom, from Analects)
extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
great person of the past
(idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them
homicidal maniac
capable person
to leave one's mortal frame (idiom)
mother
impetuous person
clergy
mother (as a social role)
kindred spirit
poor but with great ambitions (idiom)
triathlon
transient population
(coll.) to leave
serviceman wounded in action
by oneself (without assistance)
spy
On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
average person
see 知人善任[zhī rén shàn rèn]
see 人外有人，天外有天[rén wài yǒu rén , tiān wài yǒu tiān]
real-life version (of some imaginary character)
exploitative
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (idiom)
womanly temperament
crowded with visitors; packed with tourists
to carry a passenger
you can't always do as you like
grave digger
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing)
National People's Congress (NPC)
troubadour; bard
insured person
inspiring
God became man
Centaurus (constellation)
man behind the mirror
international human rights norms
personal savings
Eskimo
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)
overseas Chinese
to harm sb
contractor
illegal immigrant
inhuman
outstanding talent
sanitation worker
specialist
humanitarian aid
person-times
one person
lit. the dog that bites doesn't show its teeth (idiom)
Aztec (person)
crimes against humanity
disabled person
woman
New Yorker
Singaporean person
a jade worker
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.
women love bad guys
Homo sapiens
(idiom) writer; wordsmith
desolate and uninhabited (idiom)
artificial satellite
three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
person and lute have both vanished (idiom)
to appoint (sb to a post)
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
see 草菅人命[cǎo jiān rén mìng]
head
humanism
that which is yearned for by the public
to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
staff
civil police
people's commune
to plagiarize (idiom)
poor and with low expectations
convener
to stand out among one's peers (idiom)
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
Westerner
(idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing
life insurance
Arab
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
to pretend to be nice
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
an estranged person
bushman (African ethnic group)
Frankenstein (novel)
riders tired and horses weary (idiom)
lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)
greasy
to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
ball cactus
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday
to attract attention
fools have good fortune (idiom)
natural person (law)
some people
popularity
those on our side
Martian
itinerant entertainer
married woman
great person
to name sth after a person
everyone
lover
the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
(gaming) server emulator
(epidemiology) patient zero
key figure
two-person
admirable
convict
unmanned
medical personnel
Workers' Party (Singapore opposition party)
varying from person to person (idiom); different for each individual
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经[dào dé jīng]
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
cactus
(coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter
to be lenient with others (idiom)
Suirenshi, legendary inventor of fire
amusing
population
efficient government, people at peace (idiom); all is well with the state and the people
human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
to be the right person for the job (idiom)
Maya peoples
love will find a way (idiom)
(airport) ground crew
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb)
refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb)
to penetrate deeply into the heart (idiom)
(idiom) breathtaking
enviable
coming of age ceremony
rapporteur
Men of Zheng fighting over their respective ages (idiom)
research workers
canna or Indian shot (genus Canna)
The Pearl Fishers, 1863 opera by Georges Bizet 比才[bì cái]
God
executive
life (one's time on earth)
common people
servant
(criminal) suspect
person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents)
dance for two
American
the person in charge
Russian (person)
guarantor
Chinese person
human body
tutor
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
ogre
an eccentric
to teach
sophisticated, worldly person
proposer
constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry (proverb)
manpower
private
sb who pulls strings to get things done
busy bee
voter
lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom)
individual competition
government functionary
Democrat (Democratic Party member or supporter)
woman (derog.)
broker
encouraging
individualism
portrayal
nonentity
to blackmail
person in a vegetative state
political figure
person (first person, second person etc in grammar)
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
informant; news source
everyone comments disapprovingly (idiom)
stream of people
(microbiology) Bacillus cereus
nursing home
Taoist devotee (honorific)
match (couple)
homicide
foreigner
puppet burial object
(of a child) clingy
negative character
collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)
shoemaker
a giant among men (idiom)
passer-by
internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress
scholar
dummy (for crash testing, displaying clothes etc)
graduate
goalball (Paralympic sport)
superintendent
nice; pleasant; charming; hospitable to people
to like to lecture others (idiom)
unpleasant
prickly pear
footway
Internet celebrity
Pharisee
Pac-Man (computer game)
deputy to the People's Congress
Uighur person or people
(politics) strongman
to deceive others and to deceive oneself
Spaniard
human papillomavirus (HPV)
to give cause for gossip
giant
idle person; idler
brain drain
crowd of people
agent
handicapped person
rayon
lit. a vile character flourishes (idiom)
wife's uncle
nonagenarian
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
activist
scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)
Madame Tussauds (waxworks)
bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations)
to gain the upper hand by a show of strength
sphinx
Abyssinian (person)
the white race
annoying
person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance)
self-service ticketing
Valentine's Day
very able person
medical personnel
research worker
Indo-European (person)
individual protective equipment
little green men from Mars
touching
farmer
strange person
a cut above
lady
slut
Beijing resident
People's Action Party (ruling party in Singapore)
to help the needy
personal digital assistant (PDA)
registrant
unique
fundamental civil rights
legal person
human anatomy
puppet
unmanned
see 過失致死罪|过失致死罪[guò shī zhì sǐ zuì]
persistent vegetative state
criminal
Albanian (person)
sage
clay figurine
accident causing injury or death
likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc)
to take advantage of sb's difficulties (idiom)
sapodilla, a tropical fruit bearing tree
to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
Gone with the Wind (film)
wedding witness
Wu Jianren (1867-1910), late Qing dynasty novelist, author of The strange state of the world witnessed over 20 years 二十年目睹之怪現狀|二十年目睹之怪现状
Gypsy
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)
personal privacy
analyst
interests of the people
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
banana person (yellow outside, white inside)
Irish person
those with lofty ideals (idiom)
(literary) that person (usually female)
person from the same village, town or province
producer (film)
(economics) demographic dividend
one who is cut off from others (idiom)
astonishing
sinner
human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
Filipino
slut
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom)
for sb
Tibetan (person)
magician
(of a person) left unattended
messenger
each one; everyone
Tibetan (person)
colored races
lit. like a little bird relying on people (idiom)
criminal to be executed
long-lived people, rich harvests (idiom); stable and affluent society
inventor
CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
admirable people and exemplary deeds
love others as self
artificial
human habitat
who
fish-like person in Chinese folklore whose tears turn into pearls
see 天下無難事，只怕有心人|天下无难事，只怕有心人[tiān xià wú nán shì , zhǐ pà yǒu xīn rén]
black person
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK)
Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
debtor
third person (grammar)
enemy
native
barbarian
to enchant
personality
to have reached the highest official positions
planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes.
touching
personal computer
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
number of people in a family
crowd
human geography
second best person
unexpected (idiom)
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc)
lit. people shouting and horses neighing (idiom)
trapeze artist
everyone loves beauty (idiom)
anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom)
Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[zhāng pǔ]
fatal
perpetrator
intoxicating
famous person
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
(law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)
a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
poetic individual
social worker
lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)
cochlear implant
(slang) to hit sb
it's a small world (idiom)
folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[chǔ guó]
sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
the secular world
very masculine guy
spokesperson
personal charm
spokesman
He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).
successful career woman
quorum
it is everyone's duty
self-appointed moral arbiter
pedestrian underpass
(neologism c. 2010) (slang) a person used by sb as a means to an end
a match for ten thousand enemies
perspicacious person
to shout from the rooftops
everything is unfamiliar
(idiom) everyone is anxious
people-oriented
(idiom) what lowly people think counts for little
gorgeous-looking woman
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
dainty and delicate girl
there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom)
plumber
janitor
the insured person
attractive; alluring; captivating
personnel office
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
foe
Algerian
double team (sports)
see 居禮夫人|居礼夫人[jū lǐ fū ren]
anthropologist
a famous person
Korean (person)
(idiom) not want to be outdone
Tatar (person)
single room (hotel)
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[jiāng qīng], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[zhāng chūn qiáo], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[yáo wén yuán], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[wáng hóng wén], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
(vulgar) derogatory name (in which 日[rì] means 肏[cào]) for the \People's Daily\ 人民日報|人民日报[rén mín rì bào]
man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears
defendant (in legal case)
manpower
Bharatiya Janata Party
adult
entertainer
middle of the night
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报[rén mín rì bào]
other people; others; other person
population
artificial concept
People's Bank of China
person from Shandong
sb with whom one is on familiar terms
Czech person
contact (person)
shepherd
crosswalk
to enter deeply into people's hearts
ethnic Chinese person or people
heaven on Earth
it's nothing personal (idiom)
Frenchman
heir
Italian person
Man and Heaven
Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
to treat the disease to save the patient
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
appealing to the masses
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
(literary) not the right person
the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort
Humanistic Buddhism
Heaven helps the worthy (idiom)
paper dolls for ritual use in the shape of people or animals
contract workers (sent abroad)
humanities
remote and uninhabited (idiom); deserted
a benefactor
election participant
sponsor
to see one's child die before oneself
witness testimony
creator
(idiom) to blame the gods and accuse others
gentile
personal name
to pacify the people
philosopher's stone
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[dà bān niè pán jīng]); fig. unable to see the big picture
son of man
to employ talent (idiom)
Superman, comic book superhero
genuine people and true events
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
China National People's Congress
we
mediocre person
Inuit
horse trainer
eyewitness (to an incident)
partner
total population
a tide of people
compatriots (literary)
census
reserve troops
Maori, indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
guarantor; person paying bail
interactions between heaven and mankind (Han Dynasty doctrine)
Human Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇[sān huáng]
things have remained the same, but people have changed
gatekeeper
humanities and social sciences
Life is short, learning is limitless
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[sān zì jīng])
interpersonal relationship
human form
willing to help others
(jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
modern people
me personally; the sort of person I am
to be infectious
to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case
people of all ethnic groups; the peoples (of a nation)
margarine
Norman (people)
the gods love the common people (idiom)
Workers Stadium
relations with other people
wall (soccer)
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[fú xī]
(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
to force someone to do something
missing in action (MIA) (military)
the Sage Confucius
making things awkward
suitable for adults
to cheat sb
(slang) threesome
a professional
popular feeling
Manchu
harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of others
sidewalk
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple)
artificial language
specialized crowd management vehicle, a riot control vehicle equipped with a water cannon, commonly known as water cannon vehicle 水炮車|水炮车[shuǐ pào chē]
annuit coeptis
a savage
(scientific) researcher
armor maker
to insult
Cantonese (people)
Normans (people)
exceptionally bright kid
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
servant
to call upon others for help
poll tax
Hebrew person
leaving much to be desired
Viking
Hong Kong person or people
anthropology
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too
nobility
to do a favor to sb
investigator
people of this province
witness
to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金
Neanderthal man
ashen-faced
fortune favors fools (idiom)
nobody can compete with
writer of 詞|词[cí] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem)
Veterans' Day
low-paid workers in industries that offer jobs for the unskilled
brain drain
Renren (Chinese social networking website)
sophisticate
vast, but sparsely populated
artificial intelligence (AI)
paper doll
lit. that person
widow's peak (in China, regarded as attractive in women)
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
dwarf
(idiom) not want to be outdone
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
your humble servant
people (in general)
Homo economicus
(literary) we
ordinary person
not to enjoy popular support
dwarf
coordinator
inheritress
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
man proposes, God disposes (idiom)
bad person
Kyrgyz (person)
a human rights activist
original cast
trendsetter
bad person
thrifty
People's Republic of China
European (person)
monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist)
amiable and approachable (idiom); easygoing
mine detector (employee)
Workers' Daily, Chinese newspaper founded in 1949
inhuman (idiom)
dog (Internet slang)
lit. to pull sb into the water
where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible
pleasing; gratifying
hundred-eyed monster
see 後繼無人|后继无人[hòu jì wú rén]
to follow in other people's footsteps
borderline personality disorder (BPD)
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate)
having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
double room
traveler (on a long journey)
nobody will find fault with extra courtesy (idiom)
to be of no interest to anyone (idiom)
butler
people's democratic dictatorship
not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say
to make people laugh
ancient office title
one who tries never to offend anybody
scholar
married woman; wife (as a social role)
founder
worldly wisdom
the people
stranger
to make one's mouth water
KAN Naoto (1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2010-2011
heroine (of a novel or film)
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom)
apeman
fully realized human being
German person or people
per capita
mermaid
lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom)
arrogant and overbearing
Japanese person or people
see 不求人[bù qiú rén]
stranger
ordinary person
J. A. Henckels (brand)
to treat people (politely, harshly etc)
rickshaw
one's close relatives
men and horses
Tibetan (person)
to educate people (esp. morally)
double room (hotel)
single-handedly (idiom)
not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
people from the same workplace or profession
master (of the house)
Descendants of the Dragon (i.e. Han Chinese)
successor
population studies
Mrs Thatcher
honey trap
histrionic personality disorder (HPD)
Hominini
founder (of an institution etc)
tomboy
a man (rather than a woman)
another
native person (of a country)
cute
British person; British people
drone; unmanned aerial vehicle
Uzbek (person)
spokesperson
to attract people's affection
little person
People's Square, Shanghai
to kidnap for ransom
provoking
a Moor
legendary person
guardian
nobody is perfect
(Tang dynasty) official responsible for tracking down and arresting lawbreakers
see 盡人皆知|尽人皆知[jìn rén jiē zhī]
villager
African National Congress, ANC
China Disabled Persons' Federation
space alien; extraterrestrial
humanity
stranger
passer-by
victim
upstanding person
delightful
one's personal rights
crosswalk; pedestrian crossing
individual
to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters
dead person
to make false accusations against sb (idiom)
(law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement (e.g. to pay compensation to sb)
even heroes have a weakness for the charms of a beautiful woman (idiom)
to pack one's things and leave
scholar
the sage presents as an ordinary person (idiom)
to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
American Indians
fellow traveler
(of a nation, government etc) demoralized
Swede
good person
working people
district attorney
go-between
fascinating
master
technical staff
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in absolute secrecy
person with learning difficulties (handicap)
person in the know
drone
if you want sth done well, do it yourself (idiom)
cyborg
observer
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)
charming
(law) trustee
man-made disaster
Parthian
lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field
person pursuing religious practice (Buddhism)
notary
ergonomics
to serve as a model for others (idiom)
multitude
trafficking in human beings
to be good at understanding others (idiom)
cochlear implant
fool
dissident
public figure
to astonish
potter
to provide food for thought (idiom)
no man is not...
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[fán chāng], Anhui
a beauty in the bud
philtrum
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom)
fancy or simple according to sb's budget (idiom)
Chu Renhuo (1635-1682), author of historical novel Dramatized History of Sui and Tang 隋唐演義|隋唐演义[suí táng yǎn yì]
snob
Rémy Martin cognac
dwarf in legends
inspector
employ one's talent to the fullest
killer whale (Orcinus orca)
employ one's talent to the fullest
entourage
record of famous men
victim
personnel expenditure (accountancy)
to be a different person
founder
hostess
people of the Dong ethnic minority
paleoanthropology
personality cult
security personnel
humanism
the enemy of the people
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you
ruthless
Indian (person)
Sherpa
not amenable to reason; unreasonable
study tirelessly, teach with endless enthusiasm (idiom, from Analects)
abortion
intermediary
Li Jieren (1891-1962), novelist
overweight person
friend
to replace sb (personnel, sports team player etc)
to view as strangers
the way one treats people
People's Bank of China
who?
personnel management
to annoy people
Malaysian person or people
to overcharge
leading figure
curator
to abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people
to conduct oneself
sales agent
eccentric
natives of one's own country
good people are at peace with themselves, (but) there is no rest for the wicked
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
(TV) reality show
wizard
no use to tell others
Tokharian people of central Asia
lit. not eating the food of common mortals
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
woman
whistleblower
cat (Internet slang)
Celt
to cause one (to do sth)
The Who (1960s UK rock band)
to stir up public sentiment by false statements (idiom)
backscratcher (made from bamboo etc)
First Lady (wife of US president)
grantee (law)
Everyone makes mistakes (idiom)
rescue worker
personal pronoun
personnel
PRC Supreme People's Procuratorate (prosecutor's office)
Zhou Shuren, the real name of author Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn]
known to everyone
virtuous gentleman (idiom)
hominid
to take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom)
something that everybody knows
Daoist immortal
human flesh search engine
a Turk
a passer-by
clone human
human resources department
a crime against humanity
lit. Sima Zhao's intentions are obvious to everyone (idiom)
Human Rights Watch (HRW), New York-based non-governmental organization
discouraging
kindhearted person
to do sb a favor at little cost
to marry (of woman)
(neologism) (derog.) Japanophile (esp. a Chinese admirer of WWII-era Japan)
to think oneself to exhaustion (idiom)
responsible person
TV or radio presenter
to ask for help
you can't judge a person by appearance (idiom)
astronaut
to make a show of being decent and proper
hunter
vegetative state (i.e. in a coma)
Guatemalan (person)
life is but a dream (idiom)
to harm others
successor
not a soul in sight (idiom)
(idiom) to appoint people by favoritism; to practice cronyism (or nepotism)
pleasure from helping others (idiom)
one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)
to scare
to lose face
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in Inner Mongolia
a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom)
scientific and technical staff
(slang) to reject sb (by labeling them a \nice guy\)
human smuggling syndicate
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
to make oneself an object of ridicule
hidden
Electoral College (of the United States)
illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son
foreigner
Hakka people
confidence trick in which a man is lured by an attractive woman
children's picture story book
leader
mechanic
indigenous person
to play with others and offend morals
virtual private network (VPN)
artificial insemination
a real person
dregs of society
taxpayer
shameful
packed with people
leader
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)
artificial island
pest
to get trampled on (idiom)
man with good prospects
party member
shocking
performing artist
acquaintance
annoying
young people
to die from excessive ejaculation
(coll.) leading light
peer
April Fools' Day
to lend sb a knife to kill sb
(dialect) rogue
People's party (of various countries)
Bless you! (after a sneeze)
physiognomy
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned
a person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature
pedestrian precinct
humanities
Homo erectus
If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)
cannibalism
recipient (of mail)
beggar
to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
to have lost consciousness
go-between
dame
(of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
young retiree
reviewer (of a paper)
see 吉人自有天相[jí rén zì yǒu tiān xiàng]
unpleasant
Dragon Man, the nickname of the individual whose fossilized cranium was discovered in Heilongjiang in 1933, thought to be a Denisovan 丹尼索瓦人[dān ní suǒ wǎ rén] or a new species of extinct human, Homo longi
employee
women (in general)
personal attack
young person
many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength
not known to anyone
murder case
There is no need to boast about one's treasures. (idiom)
Chinatown
to have passed away
dark and uninhabited (idiom); remote and deserted
publisher
imperial concubine or palace maid
representative individual (of a school of thought)
human life is beyond value (idiom)
public figure
(of a system or product etc) adapted to human needs
(coll.) to beat it
ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom)
Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
software developer
Peking ape-man
person
goblin that kills or harms people
world
private key (in encryption)
inmate
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
to say what everyone says (idiom)
(idiom) to succeed in both love and business
a tourist
to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people
merchant bank
Supreme People's Court (PRC)
native
murderer
lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)
no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate
a fool suffers foolish fortune (idiom)
North Korean (person)
the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom)
rich person
contacts
developer
lover
to insult
industrial worker
wise man
Saxon (people)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
ancestors
high official and noble persons (idiom); the great and the good
ergonomics
the EU Sakharov Human Rights Prize
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
People's Liberation Army
the whole family
in the dead of night (idiom)
life is hard enough as it is; don't burst my bubble (Internet slang)
known to everybody
the borrower
to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom)
human testimony and material evidence
to attract
worthy of pride
artificial insemination
wife
to tell anybody one happens to meet
witness stand or box
to kill sb for a trifle
lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom)
to die
to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own
mentor; role model
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
Sleeping Beauty
when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom)
refined pleasure of poetic minds
candidate
an outstanding talent (idiom)
creditor
whoever
to attract attention
to murder without blinking an eye (idiom)
Westerner
a small-minded person
unoccupied
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society)
Lady Macbeth
carrier (of goods etc)
beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance
crew
horrid
male chauvinism
stockbroker
People's Republic of Mongolia (from 1924)
veteran
(literary) what kind of person
popular uprising
The Economist (magazine)
beautiful woman
bus crew
country folk
a favorite of sb in power
no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)
mermaid
there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)
Varangian (medieval term for Viking)
beneficiary
human nature
cave man
to treat people according to their rank and one's relationship with them (idiom)
prehistoric man
people
visitor
to attract attention
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
personal guarantee
evil person; vile creature; villain
People's alliance party
I; me; myself
family member
sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
a castrate
flip-flops
philanthropist
to offend people with unkind remarks (idiom)
to cheat sb
single bed
people's court (of law)
critically ill patient
historical person
Jew
spouse (PRC)
see 貴人多忘|贵人多忘[guì rén duō wàng]
people of ancient times
small and densely populated
to conduct oneself
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克[bā ěr zhā kè]
dehumanization
specialist
Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
human resources
important person
the human world
moral standing
(case of, incident of) murder
false compassion
talent
artificial respiration (medicine)
Tajik (person)
canal
to pass the misfortune on to sb else (idiom); to blame others
all walks of life
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
there are plenty of such people
untrained, inexperienced person
everyone has their likes and dislikes
lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)
beauty
ungraduated ruler
densely populated
adult person
pedestrian
yellow man
fool
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), aka motor neurone disease (MND)
to long for sb far away
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
(coll.) farmer
anthropoid ape
pleasure from helping others
piranha
stranger
a wise man has passed away (idiom)
broker
excessive tendency to clemency (idiom)
gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom)
crime against humanity
personal god
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
blind person
to have no qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking
turned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected
Human Genome Project
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)
human (used attributively, as in 人肉盾牌[rén ròu dùn pái], human shield)
premeditated murder
to depend on others
local conditions and customs (idiom)
water that is too clear has no fish, and one who is too severe has no friends (idiom)
to annoy
political dissident
human anatomy
(fig.) (a celebrity or other public figure's) image in the eyes of the public
the men of today are sadly degenerated (idiom)
in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
to anger
human nature (idiom)
to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom)
lit. when people leave, the tea cools (idiom)
sender
people of good will (idiom); charitable person
(car, van) driver
virtuoso piper wins a beauty
margarine
presumptuous and ignorant person
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
an effigy
human emotions
worthy of pride
scholar
(of a thief, smuggler etc) to be caught with stolen or illegal goods
a woman of unmatched beauty (idiom)
pair skating
to acknowledge as one's teacher
person being executed
to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom)
Spider-Man, see 蜘蛛俠|蜘蛛侠
frogman
the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
to get things done relying on others (idiom); with a little help from his friends
Portuguese (person)
sender (of a message)
the deceased
crafty scoundrel
(jocular) to need to answer the call of nature
expert
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom)
Turkmen (person)
see 大人不記小人過|大人不记小人过[dà rén bù jì xiǎo rén guò]
personnel office
centaur (mythology)
trafficking in persons
White Day
zoonosis
lumberjack
satisfying
words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)
without trace of human presence
stupid person
see 吃水不忘掘井人[chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rén]
judicial officer
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (PRC)
an eminent person has short memory (idiom)
young fellow countryman
investor
overbearing
sweetheart
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
(vulgar) damned wretch
driver
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
commissurotomy
Malay person or people
Father Christmas; Santa Claus
artificial lighting
werewolf
to act like a snob
human life
lunatic ravings; nonsense
uninhabited region
people's government
personal injury
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
tall and strong
to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹[zhū xī])
bucket brigade
supervisor
to spit blood (idiom); venomous slander
Jehovah's Witnesses
scarecrow
American serviceman
the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
Ironman
the still of the night (idiom)