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[1] person; people; human being [2] everybody; each; all [3] grown-up; adult; manhood [4] persons of a certain kind [5] a person's character, reputation, etc [6] a person's physical or mental condition [7] manpower; staff; human resources  Stroke count: 2
Level: 1
Radical: 亻 (#9)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Don't confuse with: 入八儿 |
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This word has been viewed 52224 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 24th Jun 2012 03:44 |
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收件人
sau1 gin6 jan4 = recipient (of mail)
舉人
geoi2 jan4 = graduate; successful candidate in the imperial provincial examination
旁人
pong4 jan4 = other people; bystanders; onlookers; outsiders
安人
on1 jan4 = to pacify the people / landlady (old) / wife of 員外｜员外, landlord
大人
daai6 jan4 = adult; Your Honour
人生
jan4 sang1 = life
人口
jan4 hau2 = population
日本人
jat6 bun2 jan4 = Japanese person
女人
neoi5 jan4*2 = woman; girl
男人
naam4 jan4*2 = manSee all 1243 compounds (CantoDict reports 1331 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 124 examples containing 人
有個人喺棵樹後面匿埋 粵
There's someone hiding behind the tree. [Lit. have [counter] person at [counter] tree behind-face hide]
你哋真係呃唔到人 粵
You're no good at fooling people. [Lit. you-[plural marker] really trick-not-arrive people]
佢奉旨唔呃人㗎 ！ 粵
He definitely never lies! [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]
中國人係揸筷子食飯嘅。 粵
Chinese people are [people who] use chopsticks to have their meals. ["揸" here is actually "to hold"]
前日有人搶佢件衫 粵
The day before yesterday, someone stole his shirt. [Lit. day-before-yesterday, have person steal he [counter] shirt.]
我琴晚睇咗一套感人嘅戲 粵
I saw a moving film yesterday evening. [Lit. I yesterday evening see-already one [counter] moving [possessive particle] film.]
個差人喺車尾廂搵到個屍體 粵
The policeman found the body in the car's trunk. [Lit. [counter] policeman at car-trunk find-arrive [counter] dead-body In this example, 喺車尾廂 cannot go at the end of the sentence. (Why?)]
你要做個有用嘅人 粵
Make yourself a useful person. [Lit. you need do [counter] useful [possessive particle] person]
乜呢間酒店咁噏耷㗎? 點會有人幫襯呀? 粵
Why's this hotel such a mess? How will anyone want to come here? [Lit. what this [counter] hotel so shabby [particle]? How would have person would frequent [particle]]
你可以留低﹐亦可以走人﹐對我嚟講都冇所謂。 粵
You can stay or go, it's all the same to me. [Sometimes we need more Cantonese syllables to express the simple English word "or". It's 亦可以 in this sentence. ]
呢個旅遊團以香港人為主。 粵
This tourist group consists mainly of Hongkong people. [以...為主 = take ... as the main thing]
年卅呀晚呢度人山人海直情水泄不通 粵
On the 30th night, this place will be completely filled with people, impossible to move.
園主又打發了另一個僕人去，他們也把那人打了，並加以侮辱，放他空手回去。 國
And again he (the lord of the vinyard) sent another servant. But they beat him also. They humiliated him, sent him away empty handed. (Luke 20:11)
亞蓮隔籬周不時都打通宵麻雀，令到佢同屋企人受滋擾。 粵
Ah Lin's neighbours often play mahjong right through the night thereby disturbing her and her family. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,137957,137958#msg-137958]
捉棋嘅時候最憎人係度依牙鬆槓 粵
It irritates me when people around me are giving all sorts of comments while I am playing chess.
人一世物一世,出嚟旅行乜都應該試下 粵
Live the moment and enjoy life, when travelling, one should try out and experience everything.
人哋重係黃花閨女㗎！ 粵
She's still an untouched virgin girl! [The audio has 閨 mispronounced as gwai3 (instead of gwai1).]
一做錯少少嘢就俾佢插, 唔乞人憎就奇! 粵
He chews you out for every small mistake you make, it's no wonder he's so unpopular!
女仔小心啲唔好輕信男人講嘢就OK嘞 粵
Girls will be all right as long as they are careful and don't believe in what the guys say.
若要人不知除非己莫為
[1] The best way to hide a misdeed is not to commit it. [2] What is done by night appears by day.
豈但年青人愛好運動，就連上了年紀的人也積極鍛煉身體。
Not only are the young keen in sports, even the elderly are enthusiastic about physical training.
人哋啱啱學廣東話，發音唔準，你就唔好嘥人啦。 粵
Her pronunciation is a bit off as she has started learning Cantonese not long ago. You shouldn't tease her. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,135838,135838#msg-135838]
佢份人好善忘架。 粵
(S)He is very forgetful. [Although 份人 may be omitted, it can emphasize the sentence is talking about "personality". ]
唔好偷𥊙人哋沖涼，如果唔係會生眼挑針！ 粵 ?!
Don't spy on people when they are showering, otherwise you'll get a stye! [There is an old wives' tale linking styes to spying on people when they are bathing.]
如果阿明真係一個識飛嘅超人就好喇⋯⋯噉佢就唔會喺條街度踩咗啲米田共返嚟屋企，重要印到成條走廊嘅地板都係！抹死人咩⋯⋯ 粵
It'd be nice if Ah Ming were a superhero that knew how to fly … Then he wouldn't have brought home the poop that he stepped on in the street and printed it all over the floorboards in the hallway! Cleaning it up will be the death of me …
細佬，冇人鐘意喺公眾地方著衫嘅，但係呢啲係法律呀 粵
Kid, no-one likes to wear clothes in public, but it's the law! [Lit. child, have-no people like in public place wear-clothes [particle], however these are law [particle]]
佢頭先話畀我聽佢想等陣去銀行幫人哋入票 粵
He told me he wanted to go to the bank soon to cash a cheque for someone. [頭先 implies 10 or 20 minutes ago; contrast with 啱啱 which implies a few seconds ago.]
我等陣想去銀行幫人哋入票 粵
I'll want to go to the bank to cash a cheque for someone soon. [Shouldn't be parsed as 我等 陣(我哋) but as 我 等陣]
我哋開始懷疑佢有可能係我哋搵緊嗰個殺人狂 粵
We're starting to suspect that he's probably the homicidal maniac we're looking for.
佢不可一世，佢份人真係好大鼻 粵
He thinks he's the best in the world... he's really arrogant. [second half: he personality really arrogant.]
真係令人好懷念，一個世紀之後你又返嚟啦 粵
We've really missed you while you've been gone the last 100 years. [Lit. really make-people very miss-you, one century afterwards again return come [particle] This is being said to someone who's lived several hundred years (specifically Greed from Full Metal Alchemist).]
似乎我幫唔到你，都係交個波畀人罷啦。 粵
Seems there's nothing I can do to help you so I'm just gonna have to pass the buck on to someone else. [Further discussion: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,84284,111096#msg-111096]
聽講話近排有隻獵豹喺呢頭殺咗三個人 粵
I heard there's a cheetah who killed three people recently. [Lit. hear-say-speech recently have [counter] cheetah at this area kill-[particle indicating completeness] three people See this thread for discussion on grammar: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,111098,111192#msg-111192]
可唔可以解釋一下點解妳會無端端被人拉呢？ 粵
Can you explain why you were arrested for no reason? [Lit. Can-cannot explain a-little-bit why you would-be for-no-reason by people arrest [particle]?]
人質囚禁咗二十日後獲釋。 粵
The hostages have been set free after 20 days in captivity. [Aspect marker 咗 is used to indicate passive voice.]
佢一句話﹐引到成屋人都笑起嚟。 粵
His remark set everyone in the house roaring with laughter. [起嚟 is a verb complement which means 'starting to ...'.]
做緊健身操嗰個人係我細佬。 粵
The guy doing the keep-fit exercise is my brother. [In the Canto version, the noun 'guy' is placed after the verbal phrase which modifies the noun. In the English version, the noun is placed before the phrase.]
呢隻藥醫得翻好個病人。 粵
This medicine is able to cure the patient. [The verb 醫 is followed by three particles: 得, 翻, 好. 得 is potential particle; 翻 is resumptive marker; 好 is resultative particle. ]
個老婆大人矋住佢，佢又點敢出聲吖 粵
How would he be so daring as to utter a word, under the staring eyes of his wife.
年卅晚同家人喺度𨅝檯腳, 點知得咁啱男朋友又預訂咗情人節喺呢度食燭光晚餐。 粵
I had my reunion dinner with my family here on Chinese New Year's Eve. Little did I know that my boyfriend made a reservation to have our candlelight dinner in this same place on Valentine's day.
一個人喺異鄉無根無蔃，咩都要靠自己，真唔容易 粵
To be alone in a foreign place without the support from family or society, one has to be very independent; and that can be very trying.
近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞 粵
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.
呢個人罄竹難書，請佢食蓮子羹平宜咗佢 粵
This man was responsible for many countless wrong doings. We let him off easy by putting a bullet in him. |
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