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人 rén

rén noun person / people / a human being
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: The measure word 个 is most frequently used. For example, 他们四个人 'the four of them' (Lao She, 2003, p. 224). However, other measure words, such as 口 and 名, may also be used. No measure word is used when referring to large numbers of people. For example, 数百万人 'millions of people.' (VOA, 2015-07-25) 人 is a common word in both modern and literary Chinese (Kroll 2015 '人' 1). 人 is the eighth most frequently used word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (CCD '人' 1; FE '人' 1; Ho 2002, '人' 1, NCCED '人' 1).
rén noun Kangxi radical 9
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals 部首
Notes: Person (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
rén noun a kind of person
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: For example, 中国人 'a Chinese person,' 北京人 'a person frm Beijing,' or 发言人 'spokesperson.' (CCD '人' 4; Ho 2002, '人' 2, NCCED '人' 2) In literary Chinese, the formula [name] ... [place of birth] 人 is frequently used in biographies. For example, 孫子武者，齊人也 'Sun Zi was a military strategist from the state of Qi.' (Shiji, Biographies of Sun Tzu and Wu Qi《史記‧孫子吳起列傳》)
rén noun everybody
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: (CCD '人' 2; NCCED '人' 3)
rén noun adult
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: (CCD '人' 3; NCCED '人' 4)
rén noun somebody / others
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: (CCD '人' 5; NCCED '人' 5) For example, 祥子几乎和人打起来 'Xiangzi nearly got into a fight with some people.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 189) This sense is also used in literary Chinese (Kroll 2015 '人' 2). For example in literary Chinese, 其恕乎！己所不欲，勿施於人。 'Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' (Lunyu 17:24, trans. by Legge 1861)
rén noun an upright person
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Frequently Used Words 常用词汇
Notes: Referring to a person's moral character (CCD '人' 6; NCCED '人' 6)
rén proper noun Human Realm
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: FGS translation standard: Human Realm (Faxiang)

Contained in

发言人(發言人) spokesperson ; Spokesperson
佛说八大人觉经(佛說八大人覺經) Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings ; Sūtra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings
八大人觉(八大人覺) Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings
人间(人間) the human world / the world ; human world

Also contained in

等人、人民币、人员、神职人员、女人、男人、人群、中国人、人均、人数、人口、负责人、人民、人们、人大、人民大会堂、全国人大、人民群众、人民日报、最高人民法院、人士、个人、个人电脑、收件人、人性、人体、人体工程学、他人、别人、人民代表、残疾人、人次、中国人民大学、私人、创始人、人权、西方人、人才、人心、人影、人事、亲人、人物、唐人街、人类、谄人、成人

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Truncated for common words

Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 627
Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》 — count: 549
Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 481
Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》 — count: 444
Scroll 8 Śāriputrābhidharmaśāstra (Shelifu Apitan Lun) 《舍利弗阿毘曇論》 — count: 380
Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》 — count: 378
Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 353
Scroll 33 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》 — count: 325
Scroll 3 Da Ban Niepan Jing Yi Ji 《大般涅槃經義記》 — count: 318
Scroll 5 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》 — count: 286

Collocations

一人 (一人) 若一一人死 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 2 — count: 17
时人 (時人) 毘婆尸時人 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 16
诸天人 (諸天人) 使諸天人普見神變 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 2 — count: 9
二人 (二人) 至彼二人所 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 9
人尽 (人儘) 其人盡不邪婬 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 6 — count: 9
人寿 (人壽) 人壽八萬歲 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 9
四千人 (四千人) 國中八萬四千人往就太子 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 8
十人 (十人) 與大比丘眾千二百五十人俱 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 7
人言 (人言) 告諸人言 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 6 — count: 7
人行 (人行) 觀其人行 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 4 — count: 4