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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.

月下老人yuè xià lǎo rén

(Chinese folk religion) the god of matchmaking / (idiom) matchmaker

有些人yǒu xiē rén

some people

有人情yǒu rén qíng

humane

有人想你yǒu rén xiǎng nǐ

Bless you! (after a sneeze)

有仇不报非君子,有冤不伸枉为人yǒu chóu bù bào fēi jūn zǐ , yǒu yuān bù shēn wǎng wéi rén

one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)

有心人yǒu xīn rén

resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads

有情人终成眷属yǒu qíng rén zhōng chéng juàn shǔ

love will find a way (idiom)

有色人种yǒu sè rén zhǒng

colored races

有钱人yǒu qián rén

rich person / the rich

木人石心mù rén shí xīn

lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless

未亡人wèi wáng rén

widow (humble self-reference in former times)

本国人běn guó rén

natives of one's own country

本地人běn dì rén

native person (of a country)

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

杳无人迹yǎo wú rén jì

(idiom) without trace of human presence / uninhabited / deserted

枕边人zhěn biān rén

the person who shares one's bed / partner / spouse

桐人tóng rén

puppet burial object / wooden effigy buried to put a curse on sb

植物人状态zhí wù rén zhuàng tài

vegetative state (i.e. in a coma)

荣誉军人róng yù jūn rén

disabled soldier / serviceman wounded in action

树人shù rén

to prepare children to become capable citizens

树挪死,人挪活shù nuó sǐ , rén nuó huó

lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom) / fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change

机器人学jī qì rén xué

robotics

机械工人jī xiè gōng rén

mechanic

权利人quán lì rén

(law) rightholder / party entitled to a legal right (e.g. to property, copyright etc)

欺人太甚qī rén tài shèn

(idiom) to bully intolerably

正人zhèng rén

upstanding person / upright person

正人君子zhèng rén jūn zi

upright gentleman / man of honor

正义魔人zhèng yì mó rén

(Tw) sanctimonious person / self-appointed moral arbiter

步人后尘bù rén hòu chén

to follow in other people's footsteps

历史人物lì shǐ rén wù

historical person

歹人dǎi rén

bad person / evildoer / robber

死亡人数sǐ wáng rén shù

number of people killed / death toll

死人不管sǐ rén bù guǎn

(coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter

杀人不过头点地shā rén bù guò tóu diǎn dì

It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about

杀人如麻shā rén rú má

(lit.) to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / (fig.) to kill people like flies

杀人放火shā rén fàng huǒ

to kill and burn (idiom) / murder and arson

杀人未遂shā rén wèi suì

attempted murder

杀人案件shā rén àn jiàn

(case of, incident of) murder

杀人灭口shā rén miè kǒu

(idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth

杀人越货shā rén yuè huò

to kill sb for his property (idiom) / to murder for money

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