小小 xiǎo xiǎo very small / very few / very minor syn 忙进忙出 忙進忙出 máng jìn máng chū very busy 亮眼人 liàng yǎn rén (term used by the blind) sighted person / person with eyesight / perceptive person / observant person syn 死顽固 死頑固 sǐ wán gù very stubborn / very stubborn person / die-hard 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 人瑞 rén ruì very old person / venerable old person 人头 人頭 rén tóu person / number of people /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 很多 hěn duō very many / very much / great (quantity) syn 极少 極少 jí shǎo very little / very few 咫尺 zhǐ chǐ (literary) very close / very near syn 甚微 shèn wēi very small / very little / scant / minimal syn 煞有介事 shà yǒu jiè shì to make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom) / to act as if one is taking things very seriously syn 良 liáng good / very / very much syn 毕肖 畢肖 bì xiào to resemble closely / to be the very image of / to look very much like / to be the spitting image of 少之又少 shǎo zhī yòu shǎo very few / very little 本小利微 běn xiǎo lì wēi (of a small business) to have very little capital and very modest profits 山响 山響 shān xiǎng very loud / very noisy 忙碌 máng lù busy / bustling syn 繁忙 fán máng busy / bustling syn 无暇 無暇 wú xiá too busy / to have no time for / fully occupied syn 旺季 wàng jì busy season / peak period / see also 淡季[dan4 ji4] 忙于 忙於 máng yú busy with syn 太忙 tài máng too busy 百忙 bǎi máng busy schedule 忙活 máng huo to be really busy / pressing business 不可开交 不可開交 bù kě kāi jiāo to be awfully (busy etc) syn 团团转 團團轉 tuán tuán zhuàn to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy syn 好整以暇 hào zhěng yǐ xiá to be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom) syn 疲于奔命 疲於奔命 pí yú bēn mìng (idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work syn 不暇 bù xiá to have no time (for sth) / to be too busy (to do sth) syn 占线 佔線 zhàn xiàn busy (telephone line) syn 奔忙 bēn máng to be busy rushing about / to bustle about syn 门庭若市 門庭若市 mén tíng ruò shì front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom) / a place with many visitors syn 农忙 農忙 nóng máng busy farming season syn 凤仙花 鳳仙花 fèng xiān huā balsam / Balsaminaceae (a flower family including Impatiens balsamina) / touch-me-not / busy Lizzie syn 忙 máng busy / hurriedly / to hurry / to rush syn 挤 擠 jǐ to crowd in / to cram in / to force others aside / to press / to squeeze / to find (time in one's busy schedule) syn 偬 傯 zǒng busy / hurried / despondent 迎来送往 迎來送往 yíng lái sòng wǎng lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom) / busy entertaining guests / all time taken over with social niceties 旺月 wàng yuè busy (business) month 事务繁忙 事務繁忙 shì wù fán máng busy / bustling 恓惶 xī huáng busy and restless / unhappy 百忙之中 bǎi máng zhī zhōng extremely busy syn 脱不了身 脫不了身 tuō bù liǎo shēn busy and unable to get away 鞅掌 yāng zhǎng (literary) busy (with work etc) 忙乎 máng hū to be busy (colloquial) syn 忙忙叨叨 máng mang dāo dāo in a busy and hasty manner 忙音 máng yīn busy signal (telephony) 自顾不暇 自顧不暇 zì gù bù xiá (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs / too busy to spare time for anything extra syn 厉害 厲害 lì hai (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible / intense / severe / devastating / amazing / awesome / outstanding / (of a person) stern / strict / harsh / shrewd / tough / (of an animal) fierce / (of a resemblance) striking / (of liquor or chili pepper) strong / (of bacteria) virulent syn 高人 gāo rén very able person syn 大牌 dà pái strong card / honor card (card games) / very popular or successful person / self-important 大款 dà kuǎn very wealthy person syn 缠绵悱恻 纏綿悱惻 chán mián fěi cè (of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental syn 大器 dà qì very capable person / precious object syn 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 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 