efficient government, people at peace (idiom) / all is well with the state and the people
Headword or pronunciation政通人和
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saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation救人一命胜造七级浮屠
rescue worker
Headword or pronunciation救护人员
to dare to be first / to pioneer (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation敢为人先
cultivated individual / scholar / literati
Headword or pronunciation文人
scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation文人相轻
the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation文如其人
a small-minded person / a bean-counter
Headword or pronunciation斗筲之人
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
Headword or pronunciation新新人类
spokesman
Headword or pronunciation新闻发言人
to act as though there were nobody else present / unselfconscious / fig. without regard for others
Headword or pronunciation旁若无人
Manchu / bannerman (refers to the eight Manchu banners 八旗[])
Headword or pronunciation旗人
an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation明人不做暗事
perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind)
Headword or pronunciation明眼人
Homo sapiens
Headword or pronunciation智人
person with learning difficulties (handicap) / retarded person
Headword or pronunciation智障人士
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation更深人静
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
Headword or pronunciation替古人担忧
(Chinese folk religion) the god of matchmaking / (idiom) matchmaker
Headword or pronunciation月下老人
some people
Headword or pronunciation有些人
humane
Headword or pronunciation有人情
Bless you! (after a sneeze)
Headword or pronunciation有人想你
one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation有仇不报非君子，有冤不伸枉为人
resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads
Headword or pronunciation有心人
love will find a way (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation有情人终成眷属
colored races
Headword or pronunciation有色人种
rich person / the rich
Headword or pronunciation有钱人
lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless
Headword or pronunciation木人石心
widow (humble self-reference in former times)
Headword or pronunciation未亡人
natives of one's own country
Headword or pronunciation本国人
native person (of a country)
Headword or pronunciation本地人
people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
Headword or pronunciation本省人
(idiom) without trace of human presence / uninhabited / deserted
Headword or pronunciation杳无人迹
the person who shares one's bed / partner / spouse
Headword or pronunciation枕边人
puppet burial object / wooden effigy buried to put a curse on sb
Headword or pronunciation桐人
vegetative state (i.e. in a coma)
Headword or pronunciation植物人状态
disabled soldier / serviceman wounded in action
Headword or pronunciation荣誉军人
to prepare children to become capable citizens
Headword or pronunciation树人
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
Headword or pronunciation树挪死，人挪活
robotics
Headword or pronunciation机器人学
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