人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn 世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn 盎司 àng sī ounce (British imperial system) (loanword) syn 布鲁克 布魯克 bù lǔ kè Brook (name) / Peter Brook (1925), British theater director 民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments 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 不列颠 不列顛 bù liè diān Britain / British / Great Britain 泰坦尼克号 泰坦尼克號 tài tǎn ní kè hào RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 罗素 羅素 luó sù Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist 达尔文 達爾文 dá ěr wén Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu3zhong3 Qi3yuan2] / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) 英军 英軍 yīng jūn British army 掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes syn 撒切尔 撒切爾 sā qiē ěr Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 万众一心 萬眾一心 wàn zhòng yī xīn millions of people all of one mind (idiom) / the people united syn 民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare 良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) 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 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 法拉第 fǎ lā dì Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity 凯恩斯 凱恩斯 kǎi ēn sī Keynes (name) / John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia 李斯特 lǐ sī tè Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer / Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist 托尔金 托爾金 tuō ěr jīn J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn 嶙峋 lín xún bony (of people) / craggy / rugged (of terrain) / upright (of people) syn 两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn 小贝 小貝 xiǎo bèi "Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆[Bei4 ke4 han4 mu3]) 万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman 大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people 滚石 滾石 gǔn shí Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine) 中英 zhōng yīng Sino-British / Chinese-English 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 英联邦 英聯邦 yīng lián bāng British Commonwealth of Nations 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 辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn 库克 庫克 kù kè Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer 纳尔逊 納爾遜 nà ěr xùn Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero 贝克汉姆 貝克漢姆 bèi kè hàn mǔ Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer 蒙哥马利 蒙哥馬利 méng gē mǎ lì Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname) 波义耳 波義耳 bō yì ěr Boyle (name) / Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 韦利 韋利 wéi lì Waley or Whaley (name) / Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist 道尔顿 道爾頓 dào ěr dùn Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory 开尔文 開爾文 kāi ěr wén Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale) 布兰森 佈蘭森 bù lán sēn (name) Branson or Brandsen / Sir Richard Branson (1950-), British billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group 蒙巴顿 矇巴頓 méng bā dùn Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA. 政通人和 zhèng tōng rén hé efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people syn 李约瑟 李約瑟 lǐ yuē sè Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China 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 赫胥黎 hè xū lí Huxley (name) / Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin / Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist 英石 yīng dàn stone (British unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (about 6.3 kilograms)) 彭定康 péng dìng kāng Chris Patten (1944-), last British Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997 肖伯纳 肖伯納 xiāo bó nà Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright 好 hǎo good / appropriate / proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello syn 人 rén person / people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] 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 位 wèi position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential syn 别人 別人 bié ren other people / others / other person syn 名 míng name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people syn 有人 yǒu rén someone / people / anyone / there is someone there / occupied (as in restroom) 人们 人們 rén men people syn 进行 進行 jìn xíng (of a process etc) to proceed / to be in progress / to be underway / (of people) to carry out / to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) / (of an army etc) to be on the march / to advance syn 口 kǒu mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls syn 组 組 zǔ to form / to organize / group / team / classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries 海 hǎi ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous syn 人民 rén mín the people / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 年轻人 年輕人 nián qīng rén young people / youngster syn 物 wù (bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself / people other than oneself syn 林 lín (bound form) woods / forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) syn 某人 mǒu rén someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) syn 他人 tā rén another person / sb else / other people syn 人口 rén kǒu population / people syn 民 mín (bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country syn 单位 單位 dān wèi unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 平民 píng mín ordinary people / commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military) syn 人数 人數 rén shù number of people syn 普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street syn 着想 著想 zhuó xiǎng to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3] syn 拉丁 lā dīng Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service 民众 民眾 mín zhòng the populace / the masses / the common people syn 体贴 體貼 tǐ tiē considerate (of other people's needs) syn 穷人 窮人 qióng rén poor people / the poor syn 榜样 榜樣 bǎng yàng model / example (for people to follow) / (in reference to a person) role model syn 人心 rén xīn popular feeling / the will of the people syn 活生生 huó shēng shēng real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) syn 国民 國民 guó mín nationals / citizens / people of a nation syn 惹火 rě huǒ to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers 管闲事 管閒事 guǎn xián shì to meddle / to be a "nosy Parker" / to be too inquisitive about other people's business syn 酋长 酋長 qiú zhǎng headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir 偏偏 piān piān (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately / as it happened / (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly / contrarily / against reason / (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely / only / of all people syn 专利 專利 zhuān lì patent / sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people / monopoly 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 北京 běi jīng Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京[Jing1]) syn 造就 zào jiù to bring up / to train / to contribute to / achievements (usually of young people) syn 百姓 bǎi xìng common people syn 人马 人馬 rén mǎ men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur syn 