人
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A person, a human being; people. Nouns have no plural form, so 一个人 is 'one person' and 三个人 'three people', with the measure word 个. After a place name it says where someone is from: 中国人 'a Chinese person', 越南人 'a Vietnamese person', 北京人 'someone from Beijing'.
Người, con người nói chung. Danh từ tiếng Trung không đổi dạng theo số: 一个人 là một người, 三个人 là ba người (lượng từ 个). Đặt sau tên nước, tên vùng để chỉ người ở đó, ngược trật tự với tiếng Việt: 中国人 (người Trung Quốc), 越南人 (người Việt Nam), 北京人 (người Bắc Kinh).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “人” mean?
A person, a human being; people. Nouns have no plural form, so 一个人 is 'one person' and 三个人 'three people', with the measure word 个. After a place name it says where someone is from: 中国人 'a Chinese person', 越南人 'a Vietnamese person', 北京人 'someone from Beijing'.
Is “人” formal or informal?
人 is generally neutral.