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peasant; farmer
HSK 3
Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
HSK 3
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
resident; inhabitant
HSK 4
citizen
HSK 3
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
People's Republic of China
to immigrate / to migrate / emigrant / immigrant
HSK 4
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project
HSK 6
city resident
HSK 6
democracy / democratic
HSK 6
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
folk song / CL: ,
HSK 6
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
people's government
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
self-determination
fisherman / fisher folk
HSK 7-9
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Republic of China
smokers
Minquan, a county in Shangqiu City 商丘市, Henan
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
waste of manpower and resources
Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925–1948)
Minle, a county in Zhangye City 張掖市|张掖市, Gansu
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
civil code
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
Zhou Yumin or Vic Zhou (1981-), Taiwan singer and actor, member of pop group F4
netizen; Internet user; online community member
HSK 7-9
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
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  *民* | 民* | *民
surname Min
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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
(law) national treatment – the principle that foreigners or foreign goods, services and companies are accorded the same treatment as nationals or domestic goods, services and companies within the host country
public opinion / popular will / public will
HSK 6
people's militia / militia / militiaman
renminbi yuan (RMB), PRC currency unit
National People's Congress (NPC)
Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT) / Nationalist Party
voter / constituency / electorate
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
people
civil rights / citizenship rights
People's Bank of China
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
villager
National Health Insurance (Tw) (abbr. for 全民健康保險|全民健康保险)
to benefit both the country and the people
civil obligation / a citizen's duty
gross national product (GNP)
Sanmin, a district of Kaohsiung City 高雄市, Taiwan
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
immigration office
herdsman
HSK 7-9
in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
apartment building / residential tower
HSK 7-9
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
People's Liberation Army
civil law
Supreme People's Court (PRC)
civil police / PRC police
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
democracy (as a system of government)
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
people's commune
Central University for Nationalities
Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法
user-friendly; convenient (for customers, citizens etc)
multiethnic state
democratic centralism
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second
civil liberties
army-civilian / military-masses / military-civilian
plebiscite / referendum
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
national economy
residential area / neighborhood
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
woman from an ordinary family
all the people
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649
colony
nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
folk story / folktale
private house
national hero

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