| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 人 | 人 | rén | - man - person - people - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |
| 人们 | 人們 | rénmen | - people |
| 人口 | 人口 | rénkǒu | - population - people |
| 子民 | 子民 | zǐmín | - people |
| 有人 | 有人 | yǒurén | - someone - people - anyone - there is someone there - occupied (as in restroom) |
| 烝民 | 烝民 | zhēngmín | - people - the masses |
| 烝黎 | 烝黎 | zhēnglí | - people - the masses |
| 普通人 | 普通人 | pǔtōngrén | - ordinary person - private citizen - people - the person in the street |
| 名 | 名 | míng | - name - noun (part of speech) - place (e.g. among winners) - famous - classifier for people |
| 伙 | 夥 | huǒ | - companion - partner - group - classifier for groups of people - to combine - together |
| 民 | 民 | mín | - the people - nationality - citizen |
| 氓 | 氓 | méng | - common people |
| 羯 | 羯 | Jié | - Jie people, originally a branch of the Tokhara 月支[Yue4 zhi1] - also general term for non-Han people |
| 号 | 號 | hào | - ordinal number - day of a month - mark - sign - business establishment - size - ship suffix - horn (wind instrument) - bugle call - assumed name - to take a pulse - classifier used to indicate number of people |
| 蜑 | 蜑 | Dàn | - Tanka people |
| 世人 | 世人 | shìrén | - (common) people |
| 乞伏 | 乞伏 | Qǐfú | - tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people |
| 人丛 | 人叢 | réncóng | - crowd of people |
| 人家 | 人家 | rénjia | - other people - sb else - he, she or they - I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") |
| 人心 | 人心 | rénxīn | - popular feeling - the will of the people |
| 人数 | 人數 | rénshù | - number of people |
| 人民 | 人民 | rénmín | - the people - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 人流 | 人流 | rénliú | - stream of people - abortion - abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产[ren2 gong1 liu2 chan3] |
| 人海 | 人海 | rénhǎi | - a multitude - a sea of people |
| 人潮 | 人潮 | réncháo | - a tide of people |
| 人缘 | 人緣 | rényuán | - relations with people - popularity |
| 人头 | 人頭 | réntóu | - number of people - (per) capita |
| 人马 | 人馬 | rénmǎ | - men and horses - troops - group of people - troop - staff - centaur |
| 人龙 | 人龍 | rénlóng | - a queue of people - a crocodile (of school children) |
| 今人 | 今人 | jīnrén | - modern people |
| 他人 | 他人 | tārén | - another - sb else - other people |
| 侗人 | 侗人 | Dòngrén | - people of the Dong ethnic minority |
| 俗人 | 俗人 | súrén | - common people - laity (i.e. not priests) |
| 公房 | 公房 | gōngfáng | - public housing - dormitory, esp. for unmarried people |
| 别人 | 別人 | biéren | - other people - others - other person |
| 匈奴 | 匈奴 | Xiōngnú | - Xiongnu - Huns - general term for nomadic people |
| 古人 | 古人 | gǔrén | - people from ancient times - the ancients - the late (i.e. person who has passed away) |
| 国族 | 國族 | guózú | - people of a country - nation |
| 国民 | 國民 | guómín | - nationals - citizens - people of a nation |
| 太爷 | 太爺 | tàiyé | - (respectful for) one's grandfather - sb's father - older people - the head of the house (used by servants) - a district magistrate |
| 威信 | 威信 | wēixìn | - prestige - reputation - trust - credit with the people |
| 宇文 | 宇文 | Yǔwén | - a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑[Xian1 bei1] nomadic people - two-character surname Yuwen |
| 安人 | 安人 | ānrén | - to pacify the people - landlady (old) - wife of 員外|员外[yuan2 wai4], landlord |
| 宜人 | 宜人 | yírén | - nice - pleasant - charming - hospitable to people |
| 富民 | 富民 | fùmín | - to enrich the people |
| 专利 | 專利 | zhuānlì | - patent - sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people - monopoly |
| 小民 | 小民 | xiǎomín | - ordinary people - commoner - civilian |
| 川震 | 川震 | Chuānzhèn | - Sichuan great earthquake, the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people - same as 四川大地震[Si4 chuan1 Da4 di4 zhen4] |
| 市井 | 市井 | shìjǐng | - marketplace - town - the street (urban milieu) - the haunts of the common people |
| 布衣 | 布衣 | bùyī | - plain cotton clothing - (literary) the common people |
| 平人 | 平人 | píngrén | - ordinary person - common people |
| 平民 | 平民 | píngmín | - ordinary people - commoner - civilian |
| 干群 | 幹群 | gànqún | - cadres and masses - party officials and ordinary people |
| 惠民 | 惠民 | huìmín | - to benefit the people |
| 惹火 | 惹火 | rěhuǒ | - to stir up the fire - fig. to provoke and offend people - to ruffle feathers |
| 慕容 | 慕容 | Mùróng | - a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people - two-character surname Murong |
| 损人 | 損人 | sǔnrén | - to harm others - to mock people - to taunt - humiliating |
| 方便 | 方便 | fāngbiàn | - convenient - to help out - to make things easy for people - convenience - suitable - having money to spare - (euphemism) to go to the toilet |
| 旁人 | 旁人 | pángrén | - other people - bystanders - onlookers - outsiders |
| 智库 | 智庫 | zhìkù | - think tank - group of talented people |
| 暴民 | 暴民 | bàomín | - a mob of people |
| 朝野 | 朝野 | cháoyě | - all levels of society - the imperial court and the ordinary people |
| 某人 | 某人 | mǒurén | - someone - a certain person - some people - I (self-address after one's surname) |
| 树敌 | 樹敵 | shùdí | - to antagonize people - to make an enemy of sb |
| 欺生 | 欺生 | qīshēng | - to cheat strangers - to bully strangers - (of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with unfamiliar people |
| 段氏 | 段氏 | Duànshì | - a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people |
| 民怨 | 民怨 | mínyuàn | - popular grievance - complaints of the people |
| 民情 | 民情 | mínqíng | - circumstances of the people - popular sentiment - the mood of the people - popular customs |
| 民众 | 民眾 | mínzhòng | - populace - masses - the people |
| 民办 | 民辦 | mínbàn | - run by the local people - privately operated |
| 民间 | 民間 | mínjiān | - among the people - popular - folk - non-governmental - involving people rather than governments |
| 求人 | 求人 | qiúrén | - to ask for help - to ask a favor - to recruit talented people |
| 流辈 | 流輩 | liúbèi | - a contemporary - similar class of people |
| 渣滓 | 渣滓 | zhāzǐ | - residue - dregs - disreputable people |
| 港人 | 港人 | Gǎngrén | - Hong Kong person or people |
| 凑数 | 湊數 | còushù | - to serve as a stopgap - to make up a shortfall in the number of people |
| 汉人 | 漢人 | Hànrén | - Han Chinese person or people |
| 济济 | 濟濟 | jìjì | - a horde or multitude of people |
| 父辈 | 父輩 | fùbèi | - people of one's parents' generation |
| 生灵 | 生靈 | shēnglíng | - (literary) the people - living thing - creature |
| 用人 | 用人 | yòngrén | - servant - to employ sb for a job - to manage people - to be in need of staff |
| 百姓 | 百姓 | bǎixìng | - common people |
| 秃发 | 禿發 | Tūfā | - a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people |
| 穷人 | 窮人 | qióngrén | - poor people - the poor |
| 船民 | 船民 | chuánmín | - people who live and make a living on boats |
| 良家 | 良家 | liángjiā | - good family - innocent people |
| 良民 | 良民 | liángmín | - good people - ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) |
| 华人 | 華人 | Huárén | - ethnic Chinese person or people |
| 华胄 | 華胄 | huázhòu | - Han people - descendants of nobles |
| 万人 | 萬人 | wànrén | - ten thousand people - all the people - everyman |
| 万民 | 萬民 | wànmín | - all the people |
| 苍生 | 蒼生 | cāngshēng | - (area where) vegetation grows - the common people |
| 蟊贼 | 蟊賊 | máozéi | - grain eating insect - lit. and fig. vermin - a person harmful to the country and the people |
| 亲民 | 親民 | qīnmín | - in touch with the people - sensitive to people's needs |
| 贫民 | 貧民 | pínmín | - poor people |
| 贱民 | 賤民 | jiànmín | - social stratum below the level of ordinary people - untouchable - dalit (India caste) |
| 遐迹 | 遐跡 | xiájì | - stories of ancient people |
| 远人 | 遠人 | yuǎnrén | - an estranged person - sb who is alienated - people far from home |
| 边民 | 邊民 | biānmín | - people living on the frontiers - inhabitants of a border area |
| 乡民 | 鄉民 | xiāngmín | - village people |
| 乡亲 | 鄉親 | xiāngqīn | - fellow countryman (from the same village) - local people - villager - the folks back home |
| 野人 | 野人 | yěrén | - savage people |
| 阵营 | 陣營 | zhènyíng | - group of people - camp - faction - sides in a dispute |
| 陶甄 | 陶甄 | táozhēn | - to mold and educate people |
| 顽民 | 頑民 | wánmín | - unruly people - rebellious subjects - disloyal citizens |
| 食人 | 食人 | shírén | - man-eating (beast) - to eat people - fig. to oppress the people |
| 饿殍 | 餓殍 | èpiǎo | - starving people |
| 饿莩 | 餓莩 | èpiǎo | - starving people |
| 余者 | 餘者 | yúzhě | - the remaining people |
| 黄脸 | 黃臉 | huángliǎn | - yellow face (due to sickness etc) - yellow-skinned people |
| 黎庶 | 黎庶 | líshù | - populace - masses - the people |
| 黎民 | 黎民 | límín | - the common people - the great unwashed |
| 龙虎 | 龍虎 | lónghǔ | - outstanding people - water and fire (in Daoist writing) |
| 一拨儿 | 一撥兒 | yībōr | - group of people |
| 亡国虏 | 亡國虜 | wángguólǔ | - subjugated people - refugee from a destroyed country |
| 八仙桌 | 八仙桌 | bāxiānzhuō | - old fashioned square table to seat eight people |
| 印度人 | 印度人 | Yìndùrén | - Indian (person) - CL:個|个[ge4] - Indian people |
| 吐谷浑 | 吐谷渾 | Tǔyùhún | - Tuyuhun, a Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people - a state in Qinhai in 4th-7th century AD |
| 喀尔喀 | 喀爾喀 | Kāěrkā | - Khalkha, largest subgroup of Mongol people |
| 客家人 | 客家人 | Kèjiārén | - Hakka people |
| 害人精 | 害人精 | hàirénjīng | - goblin that kills or harms people - fig. wicked scoundrel - terrible pest |
| 平埔族 | 平埔族 | Píngpǔzú | - Pingpu or Pepo indigenous people - ethnic group (Taiwan), "plain tribes" |
| 年轻人 | 年輕人 | niánqīngrén | - young people - youngster |
| 德国人 | 德國人 | Déguórén | - German person or people |
| 日本人 | 日本人 | Rìběnrén | - Japanese person or people |
| 有些人 | 有些人 | yǒuxiērén | - some people |
| 有心人 | 有心人 | yǒuxīnrén | - resolute person - person with aspirations - people who feel - people who use their heads |
| 本省人 | 本省人 | běnshěngrén | - people of this province - (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants |
| 乐天派 | 樂天派 | lètiānpài | - happy-go-lucky people - optimists |
| 洋漂族 | 洋漂族 | yángpiāozú | - lit. ocean drifting people - job-hopping foreigner |
| 短衣帮 | 短衣幫 | duǎnyībāng | - lit. short jacket party - working people - the toiling masses - blue collar workers |
| 祖父辈 | 祖父輩 | zǔfùbèi | - people of one's grandparents' generation |
| 祖鲁人 | 祖魯人 | Zǔlǔrén | - Zulu people |
| 美国人 | 美國人 | Měiguórén | - American - American person - American people - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 老年人 | 老年人 | lǎoniánrén | - old people - the elderly |
| 老百姓 | 老百姓 | lǎobǎixìng | - ordinary people - the "person in the street" - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 自己人 | 自己人 | zìjǐrén | - those on our side - ourselves - one's own people - one of us |
| 英国人 | 英國人 | Yīngguórén | - British person - British people |
| 虚客族 | 虛客族 | xūkèzú | - people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries |
| 亲民党 | 親民黨 | Qīnmíndǎng | - People First Party, Taiwan |
| 设圈套 | 設圈套 | shèquāntào | - to scam - to set a trap - to set up a scheme to defraud people |
| 试药族 | 試藥族 | shìyàozú | - people who participate in clinical trials |
| 走门路 | 走門路 | zǒuménlù | - to use social connections - to toady to influential people |
| 走马灯 | 走馬燈 | zǒumǎdēng | - lantern with carousel of paper horses, rotating under convection, used at Lantern festival 元宵節|元宵节 - fig. constant busy circulation of people |
| 阿法尔 | 阿法爾 | Āfǎěr | - Afar region of northeast Ethiopia - Afar people |
| 阵亡者 | 陣亡者 | zhènwángzhě | - people killed in battle |
| 香港人 | 香港人 | Xiānggǎngrén | - Hong Kong person or people |
| 马来人 | 馬來人 | Mǎláirén | - Malay person or people |
| 面包车 | 麵包車 | miànbāochē | - van for carrying people - taxi minibus |
| 一视同仁 | 一視同仁 | yīshìtóngrén | - to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people |
| 三个代表 | 三個代表 | SāngèDàibiǎo | - the Three Represents enunciated by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 as the duty of the Chinese Communist party in 2001, namely: to represent productivity of an advanced society, forward progress of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the people |
| 不孚众望 | 不孚眾望 | bùfúzhòngwàng | - not living up to expectations (idiom) - failing to inspire confidence among people - unpopular |
| 中老年人 | 中老年人 | zhōnglǎoniánrén | - middle-aged and elderly people |
| 中华民族 | 中華民族 | Zhōnghuámínzú | - the Chinese people |
| 五行八作 | 五行八作 | wǔhángbāzuō | - all the trades - people of all trades and professions |
| 人才济济 | 人才濟濟 | réncáijǐjǐ | - a galaxy of talent (idiom) - a great number of competent people |
| 人民公敌 | 人民公敵 | rénmíngōngdí | - the enemy of the people - the class enemy (Marxism) |
| 人民利益 | 人民利益 | rénmínlìyì | - interests of the people |
| 人满为患 | 人滿為患 | rénmǎnwéihuàn | - packed with people - overcrowded - overpopulation |
| 仁人君子 | 仁人君子 | rénrénjūnzǐ | - people of good will (idiom); charitable person |
| 作威作福 | 作威作福 | zuòwēizuòfú | - tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people |
| 偷天换日 | 偷天換日 | tōutiānhuànrì | - to engage in fraudulent activities (idiom) - skulduggery - to hoodwink people - to cheat sb audaciously |
| 凡夫俗子 | 凡夫俗子 | fánfūsúzǐ | - common people - ordinary folk |
| 利国利民 | 利國利民 | lìguólìmín | - to benefit both the country and the people |
| 劳动人民 | 勞動人民 | láodòngrénmín | - working people - the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past |
| 原住民族 | 原住民族 | yuánzhùmínzú | - original inhabitant - indigenous people |
| 哈萨克人 | 哈薩克人 | Hāsàkèrén | - Kazakh person - Kazakh people |
| 大庭广众 | 大庭廣眾 | dàtíngguǎngzhòng | - public place with numerous people |
| 大有人在 | 大有人在 | dàyǒurénzài | - there are plenty of such people |
| 妨功害能 | 妨功害能 | fánggōnghàinéng | - to constrain and limit successful, capable people |
| 官逼民反 | 官逼民反 | guānbīmínfǎn | - a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people |
| 尊贤爱物 | 尊賢愛物 | zūnxiánàiwù | - to honor the wise and love the people - respecting noble talent while protecting the common people |
| 市井小民 | 市井小民 | shìjǐngxiǎomín | - ordinary people - the hoi polloi - commoner |
| 平头百姓 | 平頭百姓 | píngtóubǎixìng | - common people |
| 库尔德人 | 庫爾德人 | Kùěrdérén | - Kurdish person or people |
| 待人接物 | 待人接物 | dàirénjiēwù | - the way one treats people |
| 惹人心烦 | 惹人心煩 | rěrénxīnfán | - to annoy people - to be a pain in the neck |
| 挑拨是非 | 挑撥是非 | tiǎobōshìfēi | - to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people - to tell tales - to make mischief |
| 舍己救人 | 捨己救人 | shějǐjiùrén | - to abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people - altruism |
| 舍己为人 | 捨己為人 | shějǐwèirén | - to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people - altruism |
| 搬弄是非 | 搬弄是非 | bānnòngshìfēi | - to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people - to tell tales - to make mischief |
| 政通人和 | 政通人和 | zhèngtōngrénhé | - efficient government, people at peace (idiom); all is well with the state and the people |
| 普通民众 | 普通民眾 | pǔtōngmínzhòng | - ordinary people - the masses |
| 欺男霸女 | 欺男霸女 | qīnánbànǚ | - to oppress the people - to act tyrannically |
| 深孚众望 | 深孚眾望 | shēnfúzhòngwàng | - to enjoy the confidence of the people - to be very popular |
| 深得民心 | 深得民心 | shēndémínxīn | - to win the hearts of the people - to be popular among the masses |
| 狐假虎威 | 狐假虎威 | hújiǎhǔwēi | - lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people |
| 率兽食人 | 率獸食人 | shuàishòushírén | - lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people |
| 生灵涂炭 | 生靈塗炭 | shēnglíngtútàn | - people are in a terrible situation (idiom) |
| 男女老少 | 男女老少 | nánnǚlǎoshào | - men, women, young and old - all kinds of people - people of all ages - each and everyone |
| 社鼠城狐 | 社鼠城狐 | shèshǔchénghú | - lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people |
| 约法三章 | 約法三章 | yuēfǎsānzhāng | - to agree on three laws (idiom); provisional agreement made by new dynastic government with the people |
| 维吾尔人 | 維吾爾人 | Wéiwúěrrén | - Uighur person or people |
| 美国人民 | 美國人民 | Měiguórénmín | - the American people |
| 耸人听闻 | 聳人聽聞 | sǒngréntīngwén | - to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people |
| 芸芸众生 | 蕓蕓眾生 | yúnyúnzhòngshēng | - every living being (Buddhism) - the mass of common people |
| 血肉横飞 | 血肉橫飛 | xuèròuhéngfēi | - flesh and blood flying (idiom); carnage - people blown to pieces |
| 装神弄鬼 | 裝神弄鬼 | zhuāngshénnòngguǐ | - lit. dress up as God, play the devil (idiom); fig. to mystify - to deceive people - to scam |
| 调嘴学舌 | 調嘴學舌 | tiáozuǐxuéshé | - verbal dexterity used to sow discord (idiom); to incite trouble between people |
| 豺狼虎豹 | 豺狼虎豹 | cháilánghǔbào | - jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) - animals who are dangerous to man and cattle - fierce and cruel people |
| 贩夫俗子 | 販夫俗子 | fànfūsúzi | - peddlers and common people - lower class |
| 贩夫走卒 | 販夫走卒 | fànfūzǒuzú | - lit. peddlers and carriers - common people - lower class |
| 造福万民 | 造福萬民 | zàofúwànmín | - to benefit thousands of people |
| 阿拉伯人 | 阿拉伯人 | Ālābórén | - Arab - Arabian - Arabian people |
| 鸡同鸭讲 | 雞同鴨講 | jītóngyājiǎng | - lit. chicken speaking with duck - fig. talking without communicating - people not understanding each other |
| 云散风流 | 雲散風流 | yúnsànfēngliú | - lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down - people disperse home - things return to normal |
| 非富即贵 | 非富即貴 | fēifùjíguì | - wealthy and respectable people |
| 食荼卧棘 | 食荼臥棘 | shítúwòjí | - to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people |
| 鱼肉百姓 | 魚肉百姓 | yúròubǎixìng | - to prey on the people |
| 惺惺惜惺惺 | 惺惺惜惺惺 | xīngxīngxīxīngxīng | - people of talent appreciate one another (idiom) - to sympathize with one another |
| 普通老百姓 | 普通老百姓 | pǔtōnglǎobǎixìng | - common people - average people - hoi polloi |
| 陕西大地震 | 陝西大地震 | Shǎnxīdàdìzhèn | - the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people |
| 马来西亚人 | 馬來西亞人 | Mǎláixīyàrén | - Malaysian person or people |
| 不是一家人不进一家门 | 不是一家人不進一家門 | bùshìyījiārénbùjìnyījiāmén | - people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) - marriages are predestined - people marry because they share common traits |
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