womanly temperament / femininity / effeminate (of male) / cowardly / sissy
Headword or pronunciation女人气
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womanly temperament / femininity / effeminate (of male) / cowardly / sissy
Headword or pronunciation女人气
inheritress
Headword or pronunciation女继承人
crafty scoundrel / villain
Headword or pronunciation奸人
admirable people and exemplary deeds
Headword or pronunciation好人好事
to like to lecture others (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation好为人师
the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb) / self-awareness comes from within / to know best by personal experience
Headword or pronunciation如人饮水,冷暖自知
presumptuous and ignorant person
Headword or pronunciation妄人
magician / sorcerer
Headword or pronunciation妖人
excessive tendency to clemency (idiom) / soft-hearted (pejorative)
Headword or pronunciation妇人之仁
woman (derog.)
Headword or pronunciation妇道人家
female matchmaker
Headword or pronunciation媒人婆
to pass the misfortune on to sb else (idiom) / to blame others / to pass the buck
Headword or pronunciation嫁祸于人
depositor
Headword or pronunciation存款人
one who is cut off from others (idiom) / one who has chosen to follow a solitary path / (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
Headword or pronunciation孤家寡人
scholar / learned person
Headword or pronunciation学人
study tirelessly, teach with endless enthusiasm (idiom, from Analects)
Headword or pronunciation学而不厌,诲人不倦
(old) wife / mother
Headword or pronunciation孺人
gatekeeper
Headword or pronunciation守门人
to pacify the people / landlady (old) / wife of 員外|员外[], landlord
Headword or pronunciation安人
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
Headword or pronunciation官宦人家
to long for sb far away / to grieve over the dead
Headword or pronunciation室迩人遐
imperial concubine or palace maid / imperial secretary (old)
Headword or pronunciation宫人
to overcharge / to rip sb off
Headword or pronunciation宰人
(idiom) (usu. of behaviors, systems or trends etc) to cause people tremendous harm
Headword or pronunciation害人不浅
refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb)
Headword or pronunciation害人之心不可有,防人之心不可无
goblin that kills or harms people / fig. wicked scoundrel / terrible pest
Headword or pronunciation害人精
pest / evildoer
Headword or pronunciation害人虫
lit. each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom) / comfortably off
Headword or pronunciation家给人足
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom) / to live relying on sb else's charity
Headword or pronunciation寄人篱下
sender
Headword or pronunciation寄件人
(corporations law) actual controller
Headword or pronunciation实际控制人
reviewer (of a paper)
Headword or pronunciation审稿人
to be lenient with others (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation宽以待人
a professional
Headword or pronunciation专业人士
expert (in a field)
Headword or pronunciation专业人才
it's nothing personal (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation对事不对人
lit. a vile character flourishes (idiom) / fig. an inferior person gets into a position of power, becoming conceited and arrogant
Headword or pronunciation小人得志
Headword or pronunciation小人书
exceptionally bright kid / child prodigy
Headword or pronunciation小人精
dainty and delicate girl / concubine
Headword or pronunciation小女人