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nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
peasant; farmer
HSK 3
Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
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
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
citizen
HSK 3
to immigrate / to migrate / emigrant / immigrant
HSK 4
resident; inhabitant
HSK 4
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
democracy / democratic
HSK 6
public opinion / popular will / public will
HSK 6
city resident
HSK 6
folk song / CL: ,
HSK 6
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
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
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
fisherman / fisher folk
HSK 7-9
herdsman
HSK 7-9
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
netizen; Internet user; online community member
HSK 7-9
voter / constituency / electorate
HSK 7-9
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
apartment building / residential tower
HSK 7-9
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
stock investor / share trader
HSK 7-9
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
people's livelihood / people's welfare
neocolonialism
people's militia / militia / militiaman
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(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
elementary school (Tw)
to benefit the people
civil law
(slang) shitizen / commoner / hoi polloi
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
national economy
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
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)
the grass roots / the hoi polloi
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
junior high school (Tw) / abbr. to 國中|国中
user-friendly; convenient (for customers, citizens etc)
Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT) / Nationalist Party
Republic of China
people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
indigenous peoples / aborigine
vagrant / vagabond
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党
People's Republic of China
colony / colonial
entire population (of a country)
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran (abbr. for 榮譽國民|荣誉国民)
common plea / civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case)
villager
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
civil liberties
civil administration
opinion poll
in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
people's government
folk dance
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
National Health Insurance (Tw)
Huimin county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州, Shandong
to benefit the people
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
all the people
ballad / folk song
army-civilian / military-masses / military-civilian
civil aviation
the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian
China Association for Promoting Democracy (abbr. for 中國民主促進會|中国民主促进会)
people
(Tw) National Pension, a social security scheme in Taiwan
folklore
democracy (as an ideology)
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
colony
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
civil corps / militia
folk story / folktale
Yumin county or Chaghantoqay nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
popular customs / folkways / the character of the people of a nation (or region etc)
victim (of a disaster)
ordinary people / commoner / civilian
democracy (as a system of government)
Yumin county or Chaghantoqay nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
expatriates
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
refugee
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
Fumin county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
(idiom) to rid the people of a scourge

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