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HSK
People's Republic of China
person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
HSK 7-9
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  *好* | 好* | *好
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
HSK 1
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
ethnic Chinese person or people
HSK 3
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  *号* | 号* | *号
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
HSK 1
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  *人* | 人* | *人
person; people / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
population / people
HSK 2
(neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
people's government
race (of people)
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  *口* | 口* | *口
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
HSK 1
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to )
HSK 1
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
HSK 7-9
young people / youngster
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
line (i.e. of people waiting) / queue
lit. people shouting and horses neighing (idiom) / fig. tumultuous / hubbub
(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
HSK 7-9
patent / sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people / monopoly
HSK 5
people killed in battle
overcrowded with people / overstaffed
backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) / (may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc)
to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to )
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
number of people
HSK 2
starving people
outsourcing / people who judge others by their looks (abbr. for 外貌協會|外貌协会)
like a swarm of bees; in droves (used to describe people flocking to do sth)
to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
People's Bank of China (abbr. for 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行)
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  *名* | 名* | *名
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
HSK 2
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength
not living up to expectations (idiom) / failing to inspire confidence among people / unpopular
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
Indian (person) / CL: 個|个 / Indian people
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
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  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
deputy to the People's Congress
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
the "good-looks club": people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on 外貿協會|外贸协会 foreign trade association)
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
the remaining people
people's militia / militia / militiaman
people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会)
National People's Congress (NPC)
column; file (formation of people) (CL:,) / PLA army corps (1946–1949) (CL:個|个)
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
Japanese person or people
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
to order people about / to stir up / to sow discord
people
People's Bank of China
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
middle-aged and elderly people
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
China National People's Congress
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
popular feeling / the will of the people
people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
National People's Congress (NPC)
someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname)
to benefit both the country and the people
(fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly (esp. small investors, consumers or fans), treating them as an endlessly renewable resource to harvest for profit
a tide of people
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
you and I / everyone / all of us (in society) / we (people in general)
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
lit. it is not an official to be feared, but a person in direct control over sb (proverb) / fig. to be obliged to comply with people in authority
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
to swear or curse (at people) / to scold or yell at someone
millions of people all of one mind (idiom); the people united
lit. when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (saying) / fig. as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think; a clean hand wants no washing
prestige / reputation / trust / credit with the people
HSK 7-9
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
(of people) to flock together; to congregate
Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia
in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
People's Liberation Army
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
meeting place / place where people gather / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
ten thousand people / all the people / everyman
Supreme People's Court (PRC)

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