人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn 台词 臺詞 tái cí an actor's lines / dialogue / Taiwanese word syn 世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn 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 虾米 蝦米 xiā mǐ small shrimp / dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么[shen2me5]) syn 网路 網路 wǎng lù network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络[wang3 luo4] 掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes 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 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 美玲 měi líng Meiling (female name) / Zhou Meiling 周美玲[Zhou1 Mei3 ling2] (1969-), Taiwanese gay film director 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 弯弯 彎彎 wān wān Wan Wan (1981-), Taiwanese blogger and cartoonist 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 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 陈水扁 陳水扁 chén shuǐ biǎn Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008 连战 連戰 lián zhàn Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang 万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman 在地 zài dì (Tw) local / native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē]) 大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people 微星 wēi xīng Micro-Star International (MSI), Taiwanese computer hardware company 台语 台語 tái yǔ Taiwanese Hokkien (aka Taiwanese Minnan, or simply Taiwanese) 台商 tái shāng Taiwanese businessman / Taiwanese company 滚石 滾石 gǔn shí Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine) 古龙 古龍 gǔ lóng Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter 马英九 馬英九 mǎ yīng jiǔ Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016 琼瑶 瓊瑤 qióng yáo Chiung Yao (1938-), Taiwanese writer 宋楚瑜 sòng chǔ yú James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨|亲民党 李登辉 李登輝 lǐ dēng huī Lee Teng-hui (1923-2020), Taiwanese politician, president of ROC 1988-2000 宏碁 hóng qí Acer, Taiwanese PC company 镭射 鐳射 léi shè laser (loanword) / Taiwanese term for 激光[ji1 guang1] 李开复 李開復 lǐ kāi fù Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009 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 闪灵 閃靈 shǎn líng The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King's 1977 novel) / ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band) 哇靠 wā kào (Tw) whoa! / holy crap! jeez! (from Taiwanese 我哭, Tai-lo pr. [goá khàu], "I cry!") 谢长廷 謝長廷 xiè cháng tíng Frank Chang-ting Hsieh (1946-), Taiwanese DPP politician, mayor of Kaohsiung 1998-2005 方文山 fāng wén shān Vincent Fang (1969-), Taiwanese multi-Golden Melody Award lyricist 阿公 ā gōng (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather 幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí]) 痞子蔡 pǐ zi cài Rowdy Cai (1969-), Taiwanese Internet writer 阿嬷 阿嬤 ā mā (Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [a-má]) 贺军翔 賀軍翔 hè jūn xiáng Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor 苏贞昌 蘇貞昌 sū zhēn chāng Su Tseng-chang (1947-), Taiwanese DPP politician, premier of the Republic of China (2019-) 王建民 wáng jiàn mín Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball 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 白先勇 bái xiān yǒng Bai Xianyong (1937-), Chinese-Taiwanese-US novelist of Hui descent 捷安特 jié ān tè Giant Manufacturing, Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer 辜振甫 gū zhèn fǔ Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat 高山族 gāo shān zú Gaoshan aborigines (Taiwan), "mountain tribes" (Tw) / Taiwanese aborigines (PRC) 东区 東區 dōng qū east district of city / east zone / Tung east district of a Taiwanese city 西区 西區 xī qū west district of city / west zone / Hsi west district of a Taiwanese city 辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn 芭拉 bā lā guava (loanword from Taiwanese) 南区 南區 nán qū south district of city / south zone / Nan south district of a Taiwanese city 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 蚵 é (Tw) oyster (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ô]) 易游网 易遊網 yì yóu wǎng ezTravel, Taiwanese travel agency 李远哲 李遠哲 lǐ yuǎn zhé Yuan T. Lee (1936-), Taiwanese-born Chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1986 政通人和 zhèng tōng rén hé efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people syn 郭台铭 郭台銘 guō tái míng Guo "Terry" Taiming (1950-), prominent Taiwanese businessman, founder of Foxconn 蔡志忠 cài zhì zhōng Tsai Chih Chung (1948-), famous Taiwanese cartoonist specializing in retelling the Chinese classics 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 汪东城 汪東城 wāng dōng chéng Jiro Wang (1981-), Taiwanese singer and actor 许信良 許信良 xǔ xìn liáng Hsu Hsin-liang (1941-), Taiwanese politician 施明德 shī míng dé Shih Ming-teh (1941-), Taiwanese politician, imprisoned 1962-1977 and 1980-1990 under the Guomindang, subsequently a leader of DPP 民進黨|民进党, in 2006 led protests against Chen Shui-Bian 陳水扁|陈水扁[Chen2 Shui3 bian3] 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 