Person in Chinese
person · HSK 1
人
Counted with 个: 一个人
教室里有很多人。 There are lots of people in the classroom.
Other ways to say person
More words with 人
How do you say person in Chinese?
Person in Chinese is 人 (rén). You can also say 员 (yuán), 人士 (rén shì), 东西 (dōng xī), 子 (zǐ).
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.