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"(literary) the people" Chinese-English Dictionary

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生灵 生靈 shēng líng (literary) the people / living thing / creature syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
华沙条约 華沙條約 huá shā tiáo yuē Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
华沙友好合作互助条约 華沙友好合作互助條約 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub
舆 輿 yú (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]) / (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven) / land / territory / (literary) carriage / (literary) sedan chair / palanquin / (bound form) the multitudes / the people / the public syn
秩 zhì (literary) salary according to rank / (literary) an official's rank / (literary) order / orderliness / (literary) decade syn
辟 bì (literary) king / monarch / (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service / (literary) to avoid (variant of 避[bi4]) / (literary) to repel (variant of 避[bi4]) syn
倪 ní (literary) small child / (literary) limit / bound / extremity / (literary) to differentiate / (literary) origin / cause
攘 rǎng (literary) to push up one's sleeves / (literary) to reject / to resist / (literary) to seize / to steal / (literary) to perturb / Taiwan pr. [rang2] syn
阆 閬 làng (literary) vast / spacious / (literary) lofty / (literary) tall door / (literary) dry moat outside a city wall
硙硙 磑磑 ái ái (literary) lofty / towering / (literary) glistening white / (literary) hard / solid / (literary) piled up
何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn
斐然 fěi rán (literary) of great literary talent / (literary) (of achievements etc) brilliant / outstanding syn
婵娟 嬋娟 chán juān (literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely / graceful / (literary) the moon syn
第 dì (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4-liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but / however / (literary) only / just syn
勒 lè (literary) bridle / halter / headstall / to rein in / to compel / to force / (literary) to carve / to engrave / (literary) to command / to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4ke4si1]) syn
俱 jù (literary) all / both / entirely / without exception / (literary) to be together / (literary) to be alike syn
聊 liáo (coll.) to chat / (literary) temporarily / for a while / (literary) somewhat / slightly / (literary) to depend upon syn
虞 yú (literary) to expect / to anticipate / (literary) to be concerned about / to be apprehensive / (literary) to deceive / to dupe syn
怃 憮 wǔ (literary) to have tender affection for / (literary) discouraged / disappointed / (literary) startled
蒐 sōu (literary) madder (Rubia cordifolia) / (literary) to hunt, esp. in spring / (literary) to gather / to collect
婵媛 嬋媛 chán yuán (literary) (of a woman) graceful / (literary) to be interwoven / (literary) to be emotionally involved
佹 guǐ (literary) perverse / unreasonable / (literary) eccentric / enigmatic / (literary) by chance / all of a sudden
塈 jì (literary) to plaster / (literary) to pick up / (literary) to rest
奭 shì (literary) majestic / magnificent / (literary) rich, deep red / (literary) angry / furious
庶几 庶幾 shù jī (literary) similar / almost / (literary) if only / it is to be hoped that / (literary) maybe / perhaps syn
人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn
民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman
人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn
世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn
两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people
民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare
有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn
口子 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent syn
深入人心 shēn rù rén xīn to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
民情 mín qíng circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs syn
食人 shí rén man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
普通老百姓 pǔ tōng lǎo bǎi xìng common people / average people / hoi polloi
亲民 親民 qīn mín in touch with the people / sensitive to people's needs
良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) syn
嶙峋 lín xún bony (of people) / craggy / rugged (of terrain) / upright (of people) syn
万众一心 萬眾一心 wàn zhòng yī xīn millions of people all of one mind (idiom) / the people united syn
掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes syn
杀人如麻 殺人如麻 shā rén rú má lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies syn
仗势欺人 仗勢欺人 zhàng shì qī rén to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom) / to kick people around syn
政通人和 zhèng tōng rén hé efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people syn
官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people syn
民以食为天 民以食為天 mín yǐ shí wéi tiān Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second syn
民生主义 民生主義 mín shēng zhǔ yì 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)
民脂民膏 mín zhī mín gāo lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom) / the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears syn
率兽食人 率獸食人 shuài shòu shí rén lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom) / fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people
听见风就是雨 聽見風就是雨 tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
解民倒悬 解民倒懸 jiě mín dào xuán lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits
薰莸不同器 薰蕕不同器 xūn yóu bù tóng qì lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix
知人善任 zhī rén shàn rèn (idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities / to put the right people in the right places
尊贤爱物 尊賢愛物 zūn xián ài wù to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people
河洛人 hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages
萨米人 薩米人 sà mǐ rén the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
蛮子 蠻子 mán zi barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)
认人 認人 rèn rén to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart
鹤佬人 鶴佬人 hè lǎo rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people
民间和平进程 people-to-people peace process
民间外交 民間外交 people-to-people diplomacy
人与人的接触 人與人的接觸 people-to-people
民间社会支持巴勒斯坦人民国际会议 民間社會支持巴勒斯坦人民國際會議 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
欧洲委员会残疾行动计划 歐洲委員會殘疾行動計劃 Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015 / Council of Europe Disability Action Plan
印度尼西亚人民协商会议 印度尼西亞人民協商會議 Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly / People's Consultative Assembly
联合国民间社会支援巴勒斯坦人民会议 聯合國民間社會支援巴勒斯坦人民會議 United Nations Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线 埃塞俄比亞人民革命民主陣線 Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front / Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
平头百姓 平頭百姓 píng tóu bǎi xìng common people / ordinary people
本省人 běn shěng rén people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
一条绳上的蚂蚱 一條繩上的螞蚱 yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together
不是一家人不进一家门 不是一家人不進一家門 bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
瘦死的骆驼比马大 瘦死的駱駝比馬大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
一家人不说两家话 一家人不說兩家話 yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
住海边 住海邊 zhù hǎi biān (fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
群嘲 qún cháo (neologism c. 2011) to deride a group of people / (of a group of people) to deride (sb)
摇人 搖人 yáo rén to call people over / to rally people together
杀人如麻 殺人如麻 shā rén - rú má lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies syn
者流 zhě liú (after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute / people of that type
古人 gǔ rén people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person syn
布衣 bù yī plain cotton clothing / (literary) the common people syn
物 wù (bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself / people other than oneself syn
千夫 qiān fū a lot of people (literary) syn
萌 méng (bound form) to sprout / to bud / (coll.) cute / adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character) / (literary) common people (variant of 氓[meng2]) syn
华胄 華胄 huá zhòu (literary) Han people / descendants of nobles
𫘦𬳿 騊駼 táo tú (literary) a well-regarded type of horse native to the northern regions, particularly associated with the Xiongnu people 匈奴[Xiong1nu2]
朦胧 朦朧 méng lóng (literary) (of moonlight) dim / (literary) murky / indistinct syn
所见 所見 suǒ jiàn (literary) what one sees / (literary) opinion / view
文体 文體 wén tǐ genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities
烟火 煙火 yān huǒ smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants / posterity syn
窈窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded syn
达人 達人 dá rén (coll.) expert / connoisseur / guru / enthusiast / geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person / person who understands life / (literary) optimist
文采 wén cǎi literary talent / literary grace / rich and bright colors syn
踌躇 躊躇 chóu chú to hesitate / (literary) to pace back and forth / (literary) self-satisfied syn
他日 tā rì (literary) some day / (literary) days in the past syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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