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  *人* | 人* | *人
person; people / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
people
HSK 2
number of people
HSK 2
population / people
HSK 2
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
staff / crew / personnel / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
artificial / manpower / manual work
HSK 3
talent / talented person / looks / attractive looks
HSK 3
humanity / human race / mankind
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
crowd
HSK 3
Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
HSK 3
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
manpower / labor power
HSK 5
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
HSK 5
person / figure / public figure
HSK 5
human rights
HSK 6
artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort
HSK 7-9
human emotions / social relationship; friendship / favor; a good turn
HSK 7-9
personality / integrity / dignity
HSK 7-9
character; moral strength; integrity / (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing
HSK 7-9
man-made / artificial / synthetic
HSK 7-9
human body
HSK 7-9
popularity / personality / character
HSK 7-9
per capita
HSK 7-9
person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
HSK 7-9
human nature / humanity / human / the totality of human attributes
HSK 7-9
choice of person / candidate
HSK 7-9
manpower / staff / human hand
HSK 7-9
personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life
HSK 7-9
human sympathy / humanitarianism / humane / the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism) / sexual intercourse
HSK 7-9
hostage
HSK 7-9
artificial intelligence (AI)
HSK 7-9
sidewalk
HSK 7-9
humanities / human affairs / culture
HSK 7-9
erhua variant of 人緣|人缘
HSK 7-9
person / personal / human body
HSK 7-9
anthropoid ape
ginseng
likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc)
everyone / every person
crosswalk; pedestrian crossing
popular feeling / the will of the people
mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander
personal name
human organ
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
relations with other people
philtrum / infranasal depression / the "human center" acupuncture point
personal guarantee / to sign as guarantor
human form / human-shaped; humanoid
the world / this world / the world of the living
Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学)
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)
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing) (abbr. for 人肉搜索) / human (used attributively, as in 人肉盾牌, human shield)
married woman; wife (as a social role)
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产
human life / CL: 條|条
dregs of society / scum
people's democratic dictatorship
transvestite / transsexual / ladyboy
a multitude / a sea of people
witness testimony
human lifespan / life insurance (abbr. for 人壽保險|人寿保险)
human relationships / interpersonal
rule of man
person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as
men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur
sign of human habitation
person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account)
people's expectations
race (of people)
many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength / There is safety in numbers.
married man; husband (as a social role)
life is but a dream (idiom)
human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
lit. when people leave, the tea cools (idiom) / fig. when sb is no longer in a position of power, others cease to care about him
to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd
man-made disaster
illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son
tall and strong
prestige; esteem
flip-flops (abbr. for 人字拖鞋)
human ladder (formed to help sb climb a wall etc); (fig.) person who sacrifices himself for others' success
(idiom) everyone is anxious / (of a group of people) to feel anxious
the shadow of a human figure / a trace of a person's presence (usu. combined with a negative verb)
(idiom) multitude; vast crowd
a galaxy of talent (idiom) / a great number of competent people
mother (as a social role)
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
human nature (idiom) / a behavior that is only natural
packed with people / overcrowded / overpopulation
criminal / culprit / suspect (old)
man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature
native / person from a particular place
lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom) / fig. off the beaten track / lonely / deserted
nobody is perfect / everyone has their defect

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