亮眼人 liàng yǎn rén (term used by the blind) sighted person / person with eyesight / perceptive person / observant person syn 狐狸 hú li fox / fig. sly and treacherous person syn 鬼蜮 guǐ yù treacherous person / evil spirit syn 大奸似忠 大姦似忠 dà jiān sì zhōng the most treacherous person appears the most guileless (idiom) 人头 人頭 rén tóu 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) syn 人称 人稱 rén chēng person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as 可人 kě rén pleasant / agreeable / a person after one's heart (charming person) / a gifted person syn 伊 yī (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that syn 羲皇上人 xī huáng shàng rén lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1] / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person 可儿 可兒 kě ér a person after one's heart (charming person) / capable person 好人 hǎo rén good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle syn 路人甲 lù rén jiǎ ordinary person A / generic person / some random person 阴险 陰險 yīn xiǎn treacherous / sinister syn 凶险 兇險 xiōng xiǎn dangerous / ruthless / treacherous syn 毒手 dú shǒu deadly blow / vicious attack / treacherous assault syn 诡谲 詭譎 guǐ jué weird / sly / treacherous syn 变幻莫测 變幻莫測 biàn huàn mò cè to change unpredictably / unpredictable / erratic / treacherous syn 奸臣 jiān chén a treacherous court official / a minister who conspires against the state syn 诡诈 詭詐 guǐ zhà sly / treacherous syn 险滩 險灘 xiǎn tān shoals / rapids / treacherous section of a river 奸贼 奸賊 jiān zéi a traitor / a treacherous bandit syn 叵测 叵測 pǒ cè unfathomable / unpredictable / treacherous 奸邪 jiān xié crafty and evil / a treacherous villain syn 奸猾 jiān huá treacherous / crafty / deceitful syn 奸险 奸險 jiān xiǎn malicious / treacherous / wicked and crafty syn 奇谲 奇譎 qí jué strange and deceitful / sly / treacherous 奸官 jiān guān a treacherous official / a mandarin who conspires against the state 阴险毒辣 陰險毒辣 yīn xiǎn dú là treacherous and murderous syn 阴鸷 陰鷙 yīn zhì malicious / treacherous 蛇蝎 蛇蠍 shé xiē (fig.) malevolent / treacherous syn 硕士 碩士 shuò shì master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person 每人 měi rén each person / everybody / per person syn 那个人 那個人 nà gè rén lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams 上线 上線 shàng xiàn to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc) 小人 xiǎo rén person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character syn 普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street syn 辗转 輾轉 zhǎn zhuǎn to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander syn 恶人 惡人 è rén evil person / vile creature / villain / (archaic) ugly person 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 闲人 閒人 xián rén idle person / idler / person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place syn 光棍 guāng gùn gangster / hoodlum / bachelor / single man / (dialect) wise person / astute person syn 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn 奇人 qí rén an eccentric / odd person / person of extraordinary talent syn 名士 míng shì (old) a person of literary talent / a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post) syn 高个子 高個子 gāo gè zi tall person / (of a person) tall syn 传奇人物 傳奇人物 chuán qí rén wù legendary person / legend (i.e. person) 废人 廢人 fèi rén handicapped person / useless person syn 德高望重 dé gāo wàng zhòng a person of virtue and prestige / a person of good moral standing and reputation syn 明眼人 míng yǎn rén perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind) syn 蛔虫 蛔蟲 huí chóng roundworm / ascarid / (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite / (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking / a mind reader 急性子 jí xìng zi impetuous person / excitable person syn 手 shǒu hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] syn 多面手 duō miàn shǒu multitalented person / versatile person / all-rounder syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 单身贵族 單身貴族 dān shēn guì zú fig. unmarried person / single person (especially one who is comfortable financially) 外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn 传抄 傳抄 chuán chāo to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying syn 辩士 辯士 biàn shì eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills syn 贤 賢 xián worthy or virtuous person / honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation syn 因人而异 因人而異 yīn rén ér yì varying from person to person (idiom) / different for each individual 矮个儿 矮個兒 ǎi gè r a person of short stature / a short person syn 吊死鬼 diào sǐ guǐ ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game) 二号人物 二號人物 èr hào rén wù second best person / second-rate person 人传人 人傳人 rén chuán rén transmitted person-to-person 刺儿头 刺兒頭 cì r tóu troublesome person / difficult person to deal with syn 受保人 shòu bǎo rén the insured person / the person covered by an insurance policy 受刑人 shòu xíng rén person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence 急性人 jí xìng rén impetuous person / excitable person 智障人士 zhì zhàng rén shì person with learning difficulties (handicap) / retarded person 路霸 lù bà brigand / (modern) uncivil driver / road hog / (PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll / (Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place 香蕉人 xiāng jiāo rén banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance 鲁人 魯人 lǔ rén person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person 人瑞 rén ruì very old person / venerable old person 人际接触 rén jì jiē chù person-to-person contact 个人之间借贷 peer-to-peer lending / person-to-person lending 人际传播 人際傳播 person-to-person transmission 好鸟 好鳥 hǎo niǎo person of good character / nice person / bird with a melodious voice or beautiful plumage 宗匠 zōng jiàng person with remarkable academic or artistic attainments / master craftsman / highly esteemed person syn 二毛子 èr máo zi lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat 头七 頭七 tóu qī the 7th day after a person's death / the first 7-day period after a person's death 泡芙人 pào fú rén (coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight) 艾老 ài lǎo (literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋 常在河邊走，哪有不濕鞋 cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) 正人 zhèng rén upstanding person / upright person 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 通人 tōng rén learned person / person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship syn 拔根汗毛比腰粗 bá gēn hàn máo bǐ yāo cū lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗[A ba2 gen1 han4 mao2 bi3 B de5 yao1 cu1]) 聋人 聾人 lóng rén deaf person / hearing-impaired person 德高望重 dé gāo - wàng zhòng (idiom) a person of virtue and prestige / a person of good moral standing and reputation syn 深柜 深櫃 shēn guì (slang) (of an LGBT person etc) closeted / person who keeps their sexual orientation, gender identity or political opinions etc private 盲友 máng yǒu blind person / visually-impaired person 遇人不淑 yù rén - bù shū (idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person / (idiom) to associate with a bad person 东西 東西 dōng xi thing / stuff / person / CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4] syn 别人 別人 bié ren other people / others / other person syn 材料 cái liào (raw) material / data / (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job syn 测试 測試 cè shì to test (machinery etc) / to test (a person's skill in a particular area) / a test / (computing) beta (version of software) 人才 rén cái talent / talented person / looks / attractive looks syn 对方 對方 duì fāng the other person / the other side / the other party syn 名字 míng zi name (of a person or thing) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 