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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 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 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 发号施令 發號施令 fā hào shī lìng to boss people around (idiom) syn 古人 gǔ rén people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person syn 搅和 攪和 jiǎo huo to mix / to blend / (fig.) to spoil / to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb) / to get involved with / to mix (with other people) syn 法兰克 法蘭克 fǎ lán kè the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France) 老年人 lǎo nián rén old people / the elderly syn 毒害 dú hài to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc / to poison (people's minds) / to corrupt / pernicious influence syn 老百姓 lǎo bǎi xìng ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 会场 會場 huì chǎng meeting place / place where people gather / CL:個|个[ge4] 阵营 陣營 zhèn yíng group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute syn 进发 進發 jìn fā (of a group of people or a convoy of vehicles) to set off syn 美国人 美國人 měi guó rén American / American person / American people / CL:個|个[ge4] 子民 zǐ mín people 人种 人種 rén zhǒng race (of people) syn 幸灾乐祸 幸災樂禍 xìng zāi lè huò lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom) / fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune / Schadenfreude syn 民兵 mín bīng people's militia / militia / militiaman 民宅 mín zhái house / people's homes syn 渣滓 zhā zǐ residue / dregs / disreputable people syn 缘分 緣分 yuán fèn fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny syn 合不来 合不來 hé bù lái (of people) to be incompatible / to not get along / to be unable to see eye to eye syn 防空洞 fáng kōng dòng air raid shelter / bomb shelter / (fig.) place that protects bad people / hideout 生灵 生靈 shēng líng (literary) the people / living thing / creature syn 鸡汤 雞湯 jī tāng chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) 人缘 人緣 rén yuán relations with other people syn 自己人 zì jǐ rén those on our side / ourselves / one's own people / one of us syn 面包车 麵包車 miàn bāo chē van for carrying people / taxi minibus 分派 fēn pài to assign (a task to different people) / to allocate syn 闲事 閑事 xián shì other people's business syn 广大 廣大 guǎng dà (of an area) vast or extensive / large-scale / widespread / (of people) numerous syn 贫民 貧民 pín mín poor people syn 树敌 樹敵 shù dí to antagonize people / to make an enemy of sb 驱赶 驅趕 qū gǎn to drive (vehicle) / to drive out / to chase away / to herd (people towards a gate) syn 