话匣子 話匣子 huà xiá zi phonograph or radio (old term) / chatterbox / talkative person syn 亮眼人 liàng yǎn rén (term used by the blind) sighted person / person with eyesight / perceptive person / observant person syn 基 jī (bound form) base / foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) syn 粤语拼音 粵語拼音 yuè yǔ pīn yīn Cantonese romanization / Jyutping, one of the many Cantonese romanization systems 軚 dài (Cantonese) steering wheel / (Cantonese) tire (car, bicycle) 多言 duō yán wordy / talkative 多嘴 duō zuǐ talkative / to speak out of turn / to blab / to shoot one's mouth off / rumors fly syn 饶舌 饒舌 ráo shé talkative / to blather / to shoot one's mouth off / rap (genre of music) syn 贫嘴 貧嘴 pín zuǐ talkative / garrulous / loquacious / flippant / jocular syn 譅 sè talkative / loquacious 木讷寡言 木訥寡言 mù nè guǎ yán honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom) 喦 niè talkative 呢呢 ní ní garrulous / talkative 嗫嗫 囁囁 niè niè talkative / light and soft (of voice) 多嘴多舌 duō zuǐ duō shé to gossip and meddle / to shoot one's mouth off / talkative 唊 jiá (old) to talk recklessly / to talk nonsense / talkative 嘴敞 zuǐ chǎng to have a loose tongue / talkative 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 北佬 běi lǎo northerner, person from Northern China (Cantonese) 鰦 zī (archaic) a kind of black fish / bad person (Cantonese slang) 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 手 shǒu hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] syn 多面手 duō miàn shǒu multitalented person / versatile person / all-rounder 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 单身贵族 單身貴族 dān shēn guì zú fig. unmarried person / single person (especially one who is comfortable financially) 外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn 传抄 傳抄 chuán chāo to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying syn 辩士 辯士 biàn shì eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills syn 贤 賢 xián worthy or virtuous person / honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation syn 因人而异 因人而異 yīn rén ér yì varying from person to person (idiom) / different for each individual 矮个儿 矮個兒 ǎi gè r a person of short stature / a short person syn 吊死鬼 diào sǐ guǐ ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game) 二号人物 二號人物 èr hào rén wù second best person / second-rate person 人传人 人傳人 rén chuán rén transmitted person-to-person 刺儿头 刺兒頭 cì r tóu troublesome person / difficult person to deal with syn 受保人 shòu bǎo rén the insured person / the person covered by an insurance policy 受刑人 shòu xíng rén person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence 急性人 jí xìng rén impetuous person / excitable person 智障人士 zhì zhàng rén shì person with learning difficulties (handicap) / retarded person 路霸 lù bà brigand / (modern) uncivil driver / road hog / (PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll / (Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place 香蕉人 xiāng jiāo rén banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance 鲁人 魯人 lǔ rén person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person 人瑞 rén ruì very old person / venerable old person 人际接触 rén jì jiē chù person-to-person contact 个人之间借贷 peer-to-peer lending / person-to-person lending 人际传播 人際傳播 person-to-person transmission 好鸟 好鳥 hǎo niǎo person of good character / nice person / bird with a melodious voice or beautiful plumage 宗匠 zōng jiàng person with remarkable academic or artistic attainments / master craftsman / highly esteemed person syn 二毛子 èr máo zi lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat 头七 頭七 tóu qī the 7th day after a person's death / the first 7-day period after a person's death 泡芙人 pào fú rén (coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight) 艾老 ài lǎo (literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋 常在河邊走，哪有不濕鞋 cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) 正人 zhèng rén upstanding person / upright person 瘦死的骆驼比马大 瘦死的駱駝比馬大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people 通人 tōng rén learned person / person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship syn 拔根汗毛比腰粗 bá gēn hàn máo bǐ yāo cū lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗[A ba2 gen1 han4 mao2 bi3 B de5 yao1 cu1]) 聋人 聾人 lóng rén deaf person / hearing-impaired person 德高望重 dé gāo - wàng zhòng (idiom) a person of virtue and prestige / a person of good moral standing and reputation syn 深柜 深櫃 shēn guì (slang) (of an LGBT person etc) closeted / person who keeps their sexual orientation, gender identity or political opinions etc private 盲友 máng yǒu blind person / visually-impaired person 遇人不淑 yù rén - bù shū (idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person / (idiom) to associate with a bad person 粤语 粵語 yuè yǔ Cantonese language 点心 點心 diǎn xin light refreshments / pastry / dim sum (in Cantonese cooking) / dessert syn 按揭 àn jiē a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese) / to buy property on a mortgage 饮茶 飲茶 yǐn chá to have tea and refreshments / to have dim sum lunch (Cantonese) syn 母鸡 母雞 mǔ jī hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1) syn 无厘头 無厘頭 wú lí tóu silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century 夏娃 xià wá Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1}) 埋单 埋單 mái dān to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese) / (fig.) to bear responsibility 广东人 廣東人 guǎng dōng rén Cantonese (people) 粤菜 粵菜 yuè cài Cantonese cuisine 