to meet a person
Results for “人”
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Exact character matches appear first. Pinyin matches whole syllables in headword pronunciations. Common exact readings come before common compounds, followed by less frequent or restricted readings. Direct English meanings rank ahead of mentions in longer definitions.
Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.
successor
to hit sb / to beat sb up
plaintiff
proposer
to harm others / to mock people / to taunt / humiliating
to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom)
harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom) / personal gain to the detriment of others
to call people over / to rally people together
to leave one's mortal frame (idiom) / to die
Sadducees
to attract / to titillate
to bring up (a child)
to kidnap for ransom
personification / anthropomorphism
recipient (of mail) / To: (email header)
recipient (of mail or a message)
inmate
to win people's hearts
consignee
political figure / politician / statesman
political dissident
efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
rescue worker
to dare to be first / to pioneer (idiom)
cultivated individual / scholar / literati
scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)
the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom)
a small-minded person / a bean-counter
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
spokesman
to act as though there were nobody else present / unselfconscious / fig. without regard for others
Manchu / bannerman (refers to the eight Manchu banners 八旗[])
an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom)
perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind)
Homo sapiens
person with learning difficulties (handicap) / retarded person
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom) / to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues