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Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
resident; inhabitant
HSK 4
peasant; farmer
HSK 3
citizen
HSK 3
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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
folk song / CL: ,
HSK 6
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
People's Republic of China
people's government
Central University for Nationalities
fisherman / fisher folk
HSK 7-9
civil liability (law)
folklore
the enemy of the people / the class enemy (Marxism)
gross national product (GNP)
independent voter
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
People's Bank of China
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
civil code
Zhou Yumin or Vic Zhou (1981-), Taiwan singer and actor, member of pop group F4
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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
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
public opinion / popular will / public will
HSK 6
people's militia / militia / militiaman
National People's Congress (NPC)
popular custom
HSK 7-9
Xinmin Evening News
people
principle of people's livelihood, the third 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 redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
villager
National Health Insurance (Tw) (abbr. for 全民健康保險|全民健康保险)
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
People's Liberation Army
immigration office
herdsman
HSK 7-9
CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
Democratic Party
civil law
Supreme People's Court (PRC)
civil police / PRC police
democracy (as a system of government)
people's commune
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925–1948)
Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
user-friendly; convenient (for customers, citizens etc)
democratic centralism
populism
renminbi yuan (RMB), PRC currency unit
plebiscite / referendum
folk story / folktale
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
National Health Insurance (Tw)
civil society
woman from an ordinary family
a local person / the local population
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
PRC Supreme People's Procuratorate (prosecutor's office)
colony
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
Sanmin, a district of Kaohsiung City 高雄市, Taiwan
private house
national hero
people of all ethnic groups; the peoples (of a nation)
seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
original inhabitant / indigenous people
houses / homes
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
second-class citizen
(politics) popular front
civil case / agricultural affairs / civil
Republic of China
multiethnic
democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Bureau of Civil Affairs
to make the country rich and the people at peace
civil administration
People's Bank of China
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second
national socialism / Nazism

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