瘸腿 qué tuǐ crippled / lame / a cripple / a lame person syn 蹇 jiǎn lame / cripple / unfortunate / slow / difficult / nag (inferior horse) / donkey / lame horse syn 亮眼人 liàng yǎn rén (term used by the blind) sighted person / person with eyesight / perceptive person / observant person syn 拐子 guǎi zi crutch / (derog.) lame person / kidnapper syn 跛脚 跛腳 bǒ jiǎo to limp / lame person syn 跛子 bǒ zi lame person / cripple syn 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 蹩脚 蹩腳 bié jiǎo inferior / shoddy / lousy / lame syn 跛足 bǒ zú lame syn 跛 bǒ to limp / lame / crippled syn 瘸 qué lame syn 尢 wāng lame 躄 bì both feet crippled / lame 尪 wāng feeble / lame 跙 jǔ weak, lame 蹇涩 蹇澀 jiǎn sè awkward / lame / difficulty (esp. in moving) / not smooth 不给力 不給力 bù gěi lì lame (unimpressive) / a huge letdown / not to try at all 烂梗 爛梗 làn gěng lame joke 语音 語音 yǔ yīn speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message syn 口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2] 尾巴 wěi ba tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] syn 哥们 哥們 gē men Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) syn 对不对 對不對 duì bù duì right or wrong? / Is it right? / OK, yes? (colloquial) 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 青石 qīng shí bluestone / limestone (colloquial) 俗语 俗語 sú yǔ common saying / proverb / colloquial speech syn 读音 讀音 dú yīn pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character 娃儿 娃兒 wá ér children (colloquial) syn 那 nà (specifier) that / the / those (colloquial pr. [nei4]) / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) / then (in that case) syn 麻利 má li swift / agile / efficient / quick-witted (colloquial) syn 拔尖 bá jiān top-notch (colloquial) / to push oneself to the front syn 属相 屬相 shǔ xiàng colloquial term for 生肖[sheng1 xiao4] the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle syn 蛋挞 蛋撻 dàn tà egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3]) 跑调 跑調 pǎo diào to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial) 赚头 賺頭 zhuàn tou profit (colloquial) syn 冯梦龙 馮夢龍 féng mèng lóng Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1] 惯用语 慣用語 guàn yòng yǔ commonly used phrase / idiom / colloquial usage 落 lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds syn 大白话 大白話 dà bái huà colloquial speech 血 xuè blood / colloquial pr. [xie3] / CL:滴[di1],片[pian4] syn 白读 白讀 bái dú colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character 较比 較比 jiào bǐ comparatively (colloquial) / fairly / quite / rather / relatively syn 俩 倆 liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some syn 蹭 céng to rub against / to walk slowly / to freeload (colloquial) syn 挞 撻 tà (bound form) to whip / to flog / (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. [ta3]) 仨 sā three (colloquial equivalent of 三個|三个) syn 胡适 胡適 hú shì Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文[bai2 hua4 wen2] 乖顺 乖順 guāi shùn obedient (colloquial) 卬 áng I (regional colloquial) / me / variant of 昂[ang2] 反文旁 fǎn wén páng (colloquial) grapheme 攵 (variant form of Kangxi radical 66, 攴) 呼呼哱 hū hū bō colloquial word for hoopoe bird (Upupa epops) 土狗 tǔ gǒu native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]) 坨儿 坨兒 tuó r classifier for lumps of soft things (colloquial) 就晚了 jiù wǎn le then it's too late (colloquial) 打兑 打兌 dǎ duì to arrange (colloquial) / to transfer creditor's rights (in a debt case) 推搪 tuī táng to offer excuses (colloquial) / to stall 捞什子 撈什子 lāo shí zi encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance 月头儿 月頭兒 yuè tóu r start of the month (colloquial) 横直 橫直 héng zhí (colloquial) whatever / come what may 秃瓢 禿瓢 tū piáo bald head (colloquial) 粘涎 zhān xián saliva / slobber / (colloquial) useless talk / drivel 说摞 說摞 shuō luò to confess / to let out the truth (colloquial) 阿堵 ē dǔ (literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[Liu4 Chao2]) this / (abbr. for 阿堵物[e1 du3 wu4]) money 咸盐 鹹鹽 xián yán salt (colloquial) / table salt 麻力 má li swift / agile / efficient / quick witted (colloquial) / also written 麻利[ma2 li5] 忙乎 máng hū to be busy (colloquial) syn 老骨头 老骨頭 lǎo gǔ tou weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently) 屁颠屁颠 屁顛屁顛 pì diān pì diān lit. jolting buttocks / (colloquial intensifier) groveling / eager / compliant / smug 文读 文讀 wén dú literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character 美帝 měi dì (in early CCP propaganda) United States (as an imperialist nation) / (in more recent times) a neutral, colloquial term for the United States 咖哩 kā lǐ (Tw) (loanword) curry / colloquial pr. [ga1li3] or [ga1li2] 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 