Other people in Chinese
other people · HSK 3
别人
- 别 don't
- 人 person
别人的东西不要乱拿。 Don't take other people's things.
Other ways to say other people
More words with 别 or 人
How do you say other people in Chinese?
Other people in Chinese is 别人 (bié ren). You can also say 人 (rén), 人家 (rén jia).
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.