Passerby in Chinese
passerby · HSK 5
路人
- 路 road
- 人 person
Counted with 个: 一个路人
一位路人帮我叫了救护车。 A passerby called an ambulance for me.
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How do you say passerby in Chinese?
Passerby in Chinese is 路人 (lù 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?
Our own 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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