Resident in Chinese
resident · HSK 5
居民
- 居 to live
- 民 the people
Counted with 个: 一个居民
这个小区的居民大多是老人。 Most of the residents in this neighborhood are elderly.
Other ways to say resident
More words with 居 or 民
How do you say resident in Chinese?
Resident in Chinese is 居民 (jū mín). You can also say 市民 (shì mín).
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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