正常 zhèng cháng regular / normal / ordinary syn 一般 yī bān same / ordinary / so-so / common / general / generally / in general syn 普通 pǔ tōng common / ordinary / general / average syn 平常 píng cháng ordinary / common / usually / ordinarily syn 寻常 尋常 xún cháng usual / common / ordinary syn 平民 píng mín ordinary people / commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military) syn 普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street syn 非凡 fēi fán out of the ordinary / unusually (good, talented etc) syn 平凡 píng fán commonplace / ordinary / mediocre syn 凡人 fán rén ordinary person / mortal / earthling syn 常人 cháng rén ordinary person syn 不同寻常 不同尋常 bù tóng xún cháng out of the ordinary / unusual syn 老百姓 lǎo bǎi xìng ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 不起眼 bù qǐ yǎn unremarkable / nothing out of the ordinary syn 平淡 píng dàn flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special syn 超凡 chāo fán out of the ordinary / exceedingly (good) syn 家常便饭 家常便飯 jiā cháng biàn fàn simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary syn 内务 內務 nèi wù internal affairs / domestic affairs / family affairs / (trad.) affairs within the palace 平头 平頭 píng tóu closely cropped hair / crew cut / (of people) common / ordinary syn 普通话 普通話 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech syn 平日 píng rì ordinary day / everyday / ordinarily / usually syn 平淡无奇 平淡無奇 píng dàn wú qí ordinary and mediocre (idiom) / nothing to write home about syn 不俗 bù sú impressive / out of the ordinary syn 贱民 賤民 jiàn mín social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste) 凡响 凡響 fán xiǎng ordinary tones / everyday harmony / common chord 中庸 zhōng yōng golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary syn 凡夫俗子 fán fū sú zǐ common people / ordinary folk syn 便饭 便飯 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking syn 挥发 揮發 huī fā to volatilize / to vaporize / to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures) / (in compound words) volatile syn 良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) syn 班底 bān dǐ ordinary members of theatrical troupe syn 按说 按說 àn shuō in the ordinary course of events / ordinarily / normally syn 按理 àn lǐ according to reason / in the ordinary course of events / normally syn 镀金 鍍金 dù jīn to gold-plate / to gild / (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special syn 常温 常溫 cháng wēn room temperature / ordinary temperatures 匹夫 pǐ fū ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow syn 兵士 bīng shì ordinary soldier syn 等闲 等閑 děng xián ordinary / common / unimportant / idly / for no reason syn 朝野 cháo yě all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people 小民 xiǎo mín ordinary people / commoner / civilian 拉家常 lā jiā cháng to talk or chat about ordinary daily life syn 不过尔尔 不過爾爾 bù guò ěr ěr not more than so-so (idiom) / mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary syn 民女 mín nǚ woman from an ordinary family syn 干群 幹群 gàn qún cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people 凡夫 fán fū common person / ordinary guy / mortal man 不食人间烟火 不食人間煙火 bù shí rén jiān yān huǒ otherworldly / detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life 人民战争 人民戰爭 rén mín zhàn zhēng people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign syn 冯骥才 馮驥才 féng jì cái Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人 平信 píng xìn ordinary mail (as opposed to air mail etc) 普普通通 pǔ pǔ tōng tōng ordinary / mediocre / nothing special syn 庸 yōng ordinary / to use syn 差不离 差不離 chà bù lí not much different / similar / ordinary / nearly syn 外事处 外事處 wài shì chù Foreign Affairs Office (at a university) / Foreign Affairs Department 情况 情況 qíng kuàng circumstances / state of affairs / situation / CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3] syn 状态 狀態 zhuàng tài condition / state / state of affairs / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 理 lǐ texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up syn 军事 軍事 jūn shì military affairs / (attributive) military syn 事务 事務 shì wù (political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database) syn 办事 辦事 bàn shì to handle (affairs) / to work syn 财务 財務 cái wù financial affairs 局势 局勢 jú shì situation / state (of affairs) syn 国外 國外 guó wài abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign syn 外交 wài jiāo diplomacy / diplomatic / foreign affairs / CL:個|个[ge4] 事态 事態 shì tài situation / existing state of affairs syn 民事 mín shì civil case / agricultural affairs / civil 气候 氣候 qì hòu (meteorology) climate / (fig.) climate / prevailing conditions (in human affairs) / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn 希尔 希爾 xī ěr Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs 商务 商務 shāng wù commercial affairs / commercial / commerce / business 世事 shì shì affairs of life / things of the world syn 对外 對外 duì wài external / foreign / pertaining to external or foreign (affairs) 医务 醫務 yī wù medical affairs 定律 dìng lǜ scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") syn 内务部 內務部 nèi wù bù Ministry of Internal Affairs 人事 rén shì personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life syn 听命 聽命 tīng mìng to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs syn 处事 處事 chǔ shì to handle affairs / to deal with matters syn 出世 chū shì to be born / to come into being / to withdraw from worldly affairs syn 家事 jiā shì family matters / domestic affairs / housework syn 内政 內政 nèi zhèng internal affairs (of a country) 外交部 wài jiāo bù Ministry of Foreign Affairs / foreign office / Dept. of State 情场 情場 qíng chǎng affairs of the heart / mutual relationship 海事 hǎi shì maritime affairs / accident at sea syn 红尘 紅塵 hóng chén the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs syn 独立自主 獨立自主 dú lì zì zhǔ independent and autonomous (idiom) / self-determination / to act independently / to maintain control over one's own affairs syn 人文 rén wén humanities / human affairs / culture 外务 外務 wài wù foreign affairs syn 越俎代庖 yuè zǔ dài páo lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom) / fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands syn 政务 政務 zhèng wù government affairs syn 入世 rù shì to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织[jia1 ru4 Shi4 jie4 Mao4 yi4 Zu3 zhi1]) 国事 國事 guó shì affairs of the nation / politics syn 外事 wài shì foreign affairs syn 总务 總務 zǒng wù general matters / division of general affairs / person in overall charge syn 与世无争 與世無爭 yǔ shì wú zhēng (idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs syn 外交部长 外交部長 wài jiāo bù zhǎng minister of foreign affairs 国务 國務 guó wù affairs of state syn 咨文 zī wén (old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state syn 政事 zhèng shì politics / government affairs syn 送终 送終 sòng zhōng to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member / to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member 世情 shì qíng worldly affairs / the ways of the world syn 