居家 jū jiā to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc) syn 华沙条约 華沙條約 huá shā tiáo yuē Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub 华沙友好合作互助条约 華沙友好合作互助條約 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Romanian People's Repub 主场 主場 zhǔ chǎng (sports) home ground / home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc) 临门 臨門 lín mén to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth 恋家 戀家 liàn jiā home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home syn 宾至如归 賓至如歸 bīn zhì rú guī guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home syn 在家千日好，出门一时难 在家千日好，出門一時難 zài jiā qiān rì hǎo , chū mén yī shí nán lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home 安老院 ān lǎo yuàn (dialect) old people's home / nursing home 老人院 lǎo rén yuàn nursing home / old people's home syn 何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight 家居 jiā jū home / residence / to stay at home (unemployed) syn 出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn 家庭影院 jiā tíng yǐng yuàn home cinema / home theater 敬老院 jìng lǎo yuàn senior citizens' home / old folks' home syn 叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn 本垒 本壘 běn lěi (baseball) home base / home plate 宅 zhái residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home syn 四海为家 四海為家 sì hǎi wéi jiā to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own syn 打道回府 dǎ dào huí fǔ to go home (in a ceremonial procession) / to return home syn 归省 歸省 guī xǐng to go home for a visit / to return to one's parents' home to pay respects 第二回籍假国 第二回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 替代回籍假国 替代回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 家庭直播电视 家庭直播電視 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting 家庭直播 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting 在家靠父母，出外靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū wài kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) 在家靠父母，出门靠朋友 在家靠父母，出門靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū mén kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) 树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home 家去 jiā qù (dialect) to go home / to return home 家访 家訪 jiā fǎng to pay a home visit, esp. (of a teacher) to visit a student's home 分散 fēn sàn to scatter / to disperse / to distribute syn 散落 sàn luò to disperse / to fall scattered / to sprinkle syn 散开 散開 sàn kāi to separate / to disperse syn 疏散 shū sàn to scatter / to disperse / to evacuate / scattered / sparse syn 四散 sì sàn to disperse / to scatter in all directions syn 发散 發散 fā sàn to disperse / to diverge syn 驱散 驅散 qū sàn to disperse (a crowd etc) / (fig.) to dispel (misgivings etc) 散播 sàn bō to spread / to disperse / to disseminate syn 吹散 chuī sàn to disperse 散会 散會 sàn huì to disperse a meeting / to adjourn / finished syn 飞散 飛散 fēi sàn (of smoke) to disperse / to dissipate / (of birds) to fly away in all directions 一哄而散 yī hōng ér sàn to disperse in confusion (idiom) 挥 揮 huī to wave / to brandish / to command / to conduct / to scatter / to disperse syn 散 sàn to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack syn 尽欢而散 盡歡而散 jìn huān ér sàn to disperse after a happy time (idiom) / everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up 頖 pàn disperse 散水 sàn shuǐ apron (sloping brickwork to disperse water) 散逸 sàn yì to disperse and escape / to dissipate 潵 sàn to disperse water 疏开 疏開 shū kāi to disperse syn 云消雾散 雲消霧散 yún xiāo wù sàn the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom) / to clear up / to vanish into thin air syn 逃窜无踪 逃竄無蹤 táo cuàn wú zōng to disperse and flee, leaving no trace 抛散 拋散 pāo sàn to scatter / to disperse 乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn 茂汶县 茂汶縣 mào wèn xiàn Maowen county in Sichuan, home of the Qiang people 羗族|羌族 远人 遠人 yuǎn rén an estranged person / sb who is alienated / people far from home 查水表 chá shuǐ biǎo (Internet slang) (of the police) to ask to be let in on the pretext of checking the water meter / to barge into people's home on false pretences 当官不为民做主不如回家卖红薯 當官不為民做主不如回家賣紅薯 dāng guān bù wèi mín zuò zhǔ bù rú huí jiā mài hóng shǔ if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes 人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn 民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments 万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people / all the people / everyman 人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn 世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn 两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 大多数人 大多數人 dà duō shù rén most people / the majority of people 民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads 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 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 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 良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) syn 嶙峋 lín xún bony (of people) / craggy / rugged (of terrain) / upright (of people) 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 掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes 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 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 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 辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn 民以食为天 民以食為天 mín yǐ shí wéi tiān Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second syn 民生主义 民生主義 mín shēng zhǔ yì principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade) 民脂民膏 mín zhī mín gāo lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom) / the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears syn 率兽食人 率獸食人 shuài shòu shí rén lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom) / fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people 听见风就是雨 聽見風就是雨 tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others 解民倒悬 解民倒懸 jiě mín dào xuán lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits 薰莸不同器 薰蕕不同器 xūn yóu bù tóng qì lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix 知人善任 zhī rén shàn rèn (idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities / to put the right people in the right places 尊贤爱物 尊賢愛物 zūn xián ài wù to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people 河洛人 hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 萨米人 薩米人 sà mǐ rén the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia 蛮子 蠻子 mán zi barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people) 认人 認人 rèn rén to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart 鹤佬人 鶴佬人 hè lǎo rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan 森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people 民间和平进程 people-to-people peace process 