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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.

遇人不淑yù rén bù shū

(idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person / (idiom) to associate with a bad person

游人yóu rén

a tourist

游人如织yóu rén rú zhī

crowded with visitors / packed with tourists

游吟诗人yóu yín shī rén

troubadour / bard

道人dào rén

Taoist devotee (honorific)

达人dá rén

(coll.) expert / connoisseur / guru / enthusiast / geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person / person who understands life / (literary) optimist

达官贵人dá guān guì rén

(idiom) high officials and noble lords / the powerful and influential

远人yuǎn rén

an estranged person / sb who is alienated / people far from home

适人shì rén

(said of a woman) to marry (old)

迁怒于人qiān nù yú rén

to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)

选举人xuǎn jǔ rén

voter / elector

邀买人心yāo mǎi rén xīn

to buy popular support / to court favor

边缘人biān yuán rén

marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)

边缘性人格障碍biān yuán xìng rén gé zhàng ài

borderline personality disorder (BPD)

那个人nà gè rén

lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams

乡人xiāng rén

villager / fellow villager

郑人买履zhèng rén mǎi lǚ

(lit.) the person from Zheng 鄭|郑[Zhèng] who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / (fig.) disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea

邻人lín rén

neighbor

配镜人员pèi jìng rén yuán

optician

酒不醉人人自醉,色不迷人人自迷jiǔ bù zuì rén rén zì zuì , sè bù mí rén rén zì mí

wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust

醉人zuì rén

intoxicating / fascinating

丑人多作怪chǒu rén duō zuò guài

(saying) unattractive or untalented people tend to make spectacles of themselves

医务人员yī wù rén yuán

medical personnel / healthcare workers

医护人员yī hù rén yuán

medical and nursing personnel / healthcare workers

里人lǐ rén

person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower

重新做人chóng xīn zuò rén

to start a new life / to make a fresh start

野蛮人yě mán rén

barbarian

铁人三项tiě rén sān xiàng

triathlon

门人mén rén

disciple / follower / hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)

闪人shǎn rén

(coll.) to beat it / to take French leave

开发人员kāi fā rén yuán

developer

开车人kāi chē rén

driver / person driving a vehicle

阅听人yuè tīng rén

(Tw) audience

阉人yān rén

a castrate

阔人kuò rén

rich person / the rich

陌路人mò lù rén

stranger

随行人员suí xíng rén yuán

entourage / retinue

雅人yǎ rén

poetic individual / person of refined temperament

雅人深致yǎ rén shēn zhì

refined pleasure of poetic minds

雌雄同体人cí xióng tóng tǐ rén

a hermaphrodite

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