姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 小伙子 xiǎo huǒ zi young man / young guy / lad / youngster / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 人家 rén jia other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") syn 青年 qīng nián youth / youthful years / young person / the young syn 世人 shì rén people (in general) / people around the world / everyone syn 造就 zào jiù to bring up / to train / to contribute to / achievements (usually of young people) syn 民间 民間 mín jiān among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments 儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) 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 掩人耳目 yǎn rén ěr mù to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes 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 民生 mín shēng people's livelihood / people's welfare 青年人 qīng nián rén young person / the young syn 后生 後生 hòu shēng young generation / youth / young man syn 良民 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) 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 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 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn 打工仔 dǎ gōng zǎi young worker / employee / young male worker 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 少壮派 少壯派 shào zhuàng pài young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave 人民法院 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal syn 小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn 少奶奶 shào nǎi nai young lady of the house / wife of the young master 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 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 青年节 青年節 qīng nián jié Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 恶少 惡少 è shào young thug / malicious young ruffian syn 少东 少東 shào dōng boss's son / young master / young boss 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 扶老携幼 扶老攜幼 fú lǎo xié yòu taking everyone along, young and old / to look after the elderly and the young syn 十日谈 十日談 shí rì tán Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1] 青 qīng green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) syn 辈 輩 bèi lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people syn 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 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 小 xiǎo small / tiny / few / young syn 小姐 xiǎo jie young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 少 shào young syn 年轻 年輕 nián qīng young syn 妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 男生 nán shēng schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 少女 shào nǚ girl / young lady syn 少年 shào nián early youth / youngster / (literary) youth / young man syn 从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn 小鸟 小鳥 xiǎo niǎo small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie syn 幼稚 yòu zhì young / childish / puerile syn 小伙 xiǎo huǒ young guy / lad / youngster / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 上下 shàng xià up and down / top and bottom / old and young / length / about / more or less syn 分娩 fēn miǎn to give birth to a baby / (of animals) to give birth to young syn 少爷 少爺 shào ye son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) syn 满怀 滿懷 mǎn huái to have one's heart filled with / (to collide) full on / (of farm animals) heavy with young syn 年幼 nián yòu young / underage syn 阿飞 阿飛 ā fēi hoodlum / hooligan / young rowdy syn 幼童 yòu tóng young child syn 孩提 hái tí (literary) infant / young child syn 年少 nián shào young / junior syn 香椿 xiāng chūn Chinese toon (Toona sinensis), deciduous tree whose young leaves are used as a vegetable syn 小妹 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) 红颜 紅顏 hóng yán a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks syn 芳心 fāng xīn the affection, or heart, of a young woman 少年犯 shào nián fàn young criminal / juvenile delinquent 幼小 yòu xiǎo young / immature syn 献殷勤 獻殷勤 xiàn yīn qín to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc) / to fawn upon (an influential politician etc) / to court sb's favor / to ingratiate oneself syn 幼苗 yòu miáo young sprout / bud / sapling / seedling syn 幼儿 幼兒 yòu ér young child / infant / preschooler syn 启蒙 啟蒙 qǐ méng to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty syn 夭折 yāo zhé to die young or prematurely / to come to a premature end / to be aborted prematurely syn 小青年 xiǎo qīng nián young person / youngster syn 小两口 小兩口 xiǎo liǎng kǒu (coll.) young married couple syn 少妇 少婦 shào fù young married woman syn 血气方刚 血氣方剛 xuè qì fāng gāng full of sap (idiom) / young and vigorous syn 初出茅庐 初出茅廬 chū chū máo lú venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn syn 雏儿 雛兒 chú ér newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo syn 老少 lǎo shào the old and the young syn 稚嫩 zhì nèn young and tender / puerile / soft and immature syn 幼女 yòu nǚ young girl syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 师弟 師弟 shī dì young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate 娇媚 嬌媚 jiāo mèi flirtatious / coquettish / sweet and charming / beautiful young woman (old) syn 老小 lǎo xiǎo the old and the young / the youngest member of the family syn 蓓蕾 bèi lěi flower bud / young flower still tightly rolled up syn 苗子 miáo zi young successor / seedling / sapling syn 芳龄 芳齡 fāng líng age (of a young woman) 嫩叶 嫩葉 nèn yè tender young leaves 闺秀 閨秀 guī xiù well-bred young lady 鹿茸 lù róng young deer antler prior to ossification (used in TCM) syn 超龄 超齡 chāo líng too old / overage / (of a young person's behavior or attributes) beyond one's years / adultlike 稚子 zhì zǐ young child syn 相公 xiàng gong lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband syn 红领巾 紅領巾 hóng lǐng jīn red neckscarf / by extension, a member of the Young Pioneers 