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 人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn 平常 píng cháng ordinary / common / usually / ordinarily syn 寻常 尋常 xún cháng usual / common / ordinary 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 世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone 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 民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments 不起眼 bù qǐ yǎn unremarkable / nothing out of the ordinary syn 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 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 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 掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes 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) 万众一心 萬眾一心 wàn zhòng yī xīn millions of people all of one mind (idiom) / the people united syn 凡响 凡響 fán xiǎng ordinary tones / everyday harmony / common chord 民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare 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 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 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 按理 àn lǐ according to reason / in the ordinary course of events / normally 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) 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 民情 mín qíng circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs syn 匹夫 pǐ fū ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow syn 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn 兵士 bīng shì ordinary soldier syn 等闲 等閑 děng xián ordinary / common / unimportant / idly / for no reason 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 朝野 cháo yě all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people 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 人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn 民女 mín nǚ woman from an ordinary family 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 干群 幹群 gàn qún cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary 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 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 俗事 sú shì everyday routine / ordinary affairs 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 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 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) 辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn 普普通通 pǔ pǔ tōng tōng ordinary / mediocre / nothing special syn 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 庸 yōng ordinary / to use syn 差不离 差不離 chà bù lí not much different / similar / ordinary / nearly syn 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 人数 人數 rén shù number of people 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 