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HSK
peasant; farmer
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
city resident
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
netizen; Internet user; online community member
HSK 7-9
voter / constituency / electorate
HSK 7-9
stock investor / share trader
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *民* | 民* | *民
surname Min
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
to benefit the people
(slang) shitizen / commoner / hoi polloi
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649
the grass roots / the hoi polloi
user-friendly; convenient (for customers, citizens etc)
indigenous peoples / aborigine
vagrant / vagabond
colony / colonial
entire population (of a country)
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran (abbr. for 榮譽國民|荣誉国民)
villager
in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
Huimin county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州, Shandong
to benefit the people
all the people
army-civilian / military-masses / military-civilian
the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian
people
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
Yumin county or Chaghantoqay nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
victim (of a disaster)
ordinary people / commoner / civilian
expatriates
refugee
social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
smokers
unemployed person / vagrant / rogue
docile subject (of new dynasty) / toady
people / the masses
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
Aimin district of Mudanjiang city 牡丹江市, Heilongjiang
(derogatory) unruly people
demotion to commoner (idiom)
poor people
refugee
adherent to a religion / convert
a mob of people
unruly people / rebellious subjects / disloyal citizens
recluse / hermit
the common people / the great unwashed
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
subject (of a kingdom, ruler etc)
ignorant masses / to keep the people in ignorance
forebears
rebels
to rob the state and hurt the people (idiom)
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
people who live and make a living on boats
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
see 蜑家
islander
lottery player
Fumin county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan
to enrich the people
the police and the community
variant of 殖民 / colony
a scoundrel / a villain
a local person / the local population
Lin Hwai-Min (1947-), Taiwanese choreographer and dancer
permanent resident / person with the right to live in a country or territory
Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)
(policy jargon) to make life easier and better for the public
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran
Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法
to benefit thousands of people
students who relocate to another region of China in order to gain an advantage on the college entrance exam
Sanmin district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan
second-class citizen
to benefit both the country and the people
people of all ethnic groups; the peoples (of a nation)
Lü Jiamin (1946-) aka Jiang Rong 姜戎, Chinese writer
Zhou Yumin or Vic Zhou (1981-), Taiwan singer and actor, member of pop group F4
merchant
fund investor / (coll.) gay person
Justice Michael Hartmann (1944-), Hong Kong High Court judge
to make the country rich and the people at peace
(slang) shitizen / commoner / hoi polloi
ordinary people / the hoi polloi / commoner
postcolonial
investment immigration / immigrant investor
(of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult
digital nomad
Xinmin, county-level city in Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳, Liaoning

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