"the Chinese people" Chinese-English Dictionary

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中华民族 中華民族 zhōng huá mín zú the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China) syn
中国人民 中國人民 zhōng guó rén mín the Chinese people
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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
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
两会 兩會 liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
河洛人 hé luò rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
蛮子 蠻子 mán zi barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)
鹤佬人 鶴佬人 hè lǎo rén Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
本省人 běn shěng rén people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
排华 排華 pái huá to discriminate against Chinese people / anti-Chinese (policy, sentiment etc) / Sinophobia
华教 華教 huá jiào Chinese language education (for people living outside China, esp. the children of overseas Chinese communities)
国语 國語 guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC syn
华侨 華僑 huá qiáo overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
华裔 華裔 huá yì ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry syn
字头 字頭 zì tóu single-character headword (in a dictionary) / first character of a Chinese word / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable
kuí one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology / Chinese mythical figure who invented music and dancing / Chinese rain god / surname Kui
峇峇娘惹 bā bā niáng rě Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
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
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
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
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
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
认人 認人 rèn rén to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart
森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people
民间和平进程 people-to-people peace process
民间外交 民間外交 people-to-people diplomacy
人与人的接触 人與人的接觸 people-to-people
民间社会支持巴勒斯坦人民国际会议 民間社會支持巴勒斯坦人民國際會議 United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
欧洲委员会残疾行动计划 歐洲委員會殘疾行動計劃 Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society: improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in Europe 2006-2015 / Council of Europe Disability Action Plan
印度尼西亚人民协商会议 印度尼西亞人民協商會議 Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly / People's Consultative Assembly
联合国民间社会支援巴勒斯坦人民会议 聯合國民間社會支援巴勒斯坦人民會議 United Nations Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People / Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People
埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线 埃塞俄比亞人民革命民主陣線 Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front / Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
平头百姓 平頭百姓 píng tóu bǎi xìng common people / ordinary people
一条绳上的蚂蚱 一條繩上的螞蚱 yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together
不是一家人不进一家门 不是一家人不進一家門 bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
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
一家人不说两家话 一家人不說兩家話 yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
住海边 住海邊 zhù hǎi biān (fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
群嘲 qún cháo (neologism c. 2011) to deride a group of people / (of a group of people) to deride (sb)
摇人 搖人 yáo rén to call people over / to rally people together
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
者流 zhě liú (after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute / people of that type
华人 華人 huá rén ethnic Chinese person or people syn
政协 政協 zhèng xié CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) / abbr. of 中國人民政治協商會議|中国人民政治协商会议[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Zheng4 zhi4 Xie2 shang1 Hui4 yi4]
汉人 漢人 hàn rén Han Chinese person or people
中国人民解放军 中國人民解放軍 zhōng guó rén mín jiě fàng jūn Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) syn
劳动人民 勞動人民 láo dòng rén mín working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
炎黄子孙 炎黃子孫 yán huáng zǐ sūn descendants of the Fiery Emperor and the Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people) syn
中国人民政治协商会议 中國人民政治協商會議 zhōng guó rén mín zhèng zhì xié shāng huì yì CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
淮海战役 淮海戰役 huái hǎi zhàn yì Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
射影 shè yǐng (geometry) projection / (Chinese mythology) creature that spits sand to make people ill
中国人民对外友好协会 中國人民對外友好協會 zhōng guó rén mín duì wài yǒu hǎo xié huì Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
中国人民武装警察部队 中國人民武裝警察部隊 zhōng guó rén mín wǔ zhuāng jǐng chá bù duì Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
平津战役 平津戰役 píng jīn zhàn yì Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
中国人民解放军海军 中國人民解放軍海軍 zhōng guó rén mín jiě fàng jūn hǎi jūn Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
周小川 zhōu xiǎo chuān Zhou Xiaochuan (1948-), Chinese economist, governor of the People's Bank of China 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行[Zhong1guo2 Ren2min2 Yin2hang2] 2002-2018
愤青 憤青 fèn qīng angry youth – highly nationalistic young Chinese people (abbr. for 憤怒青年|愤怒青年[feng4 nu4 qing1 nian2]) (neologism c. 1970s)
中国人民志愿军 中國人民志願軍 zhōng guó rén mín zhì yuàn jūn the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
掠卖华工 掠賣華工 lüè mài huá gōng Chinese people press-ganged and sold into slavery during Western colonialism
阿不来提·阿不都热西提 阿不來提·阿不都熱西提 AbulaitiAbudurexiti Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
阿鲁巴 阿魯巴 ā lǔ bā (Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
中国人民争取和平与裁军协会 中國人民爭取和平與裁軍協會 Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament
阿不来提・阿不都热西提 阿不來提・阿不都熱西提 ā bù lái tí · ā bù dū rè xī tí Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
辽沈战役 遼瀋戰役 liáo shěn zhàn yì Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
阿不来提·阿不都热西提 阿不來提·阿不都熱西提 ā bù lái tí · ā bù dū rè xī tí Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
人矿 人礦 rén kuàng (neologism c. 2023) (slang) the Chinese people, seen as a resource that is exploited for its value to the nation
中华 中華 zhōng huá Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化|中华文化[Zhong1hua2 wen2hua4] "Chinese culture") / used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國|中华民国[Zhong1hua2 Min2guo2] syn
简体中文 簡體中文 jiǎn tǐ zhōng wén simplified character Chinese, simplified Chinese
三星 sān xīng three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation / the belt of Orion / three spirits 福[fu2], 祿|禄[lu4], and 壽|寿[shou4] associated with the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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