Personage in Chinese
personage · HSK 5
人物
- 人 person
- 物 thing
Counted with 个: 一个人物
他是我们这里的知名人物。 He is a well-known figure around here.
More words with 人 or 物
How do you say personage in Chinese?
Personage in Chinese is 人物 (rén wù).
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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