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Celebrity in Chinese

celebrity · HSK 3

名人 míng rén

  1. 名 míng name
  2. 人 rén person

Counted with 个: 一个名人 yí gè míngrén

他现在是网上的名人了。 He's now a celebrity online.

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How do you say celebrity in Chinese?

Celebrity in Chinese is 名人 (míng rén). You can also say 明星 (míng xīng), 艺人 (yì rén).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.