人 (rén) means Person (people). Below are 24 of the 76 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
学校里 人 很多。
Xuéxiào li rén hěn duō.
There are many people in the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 多
商店里 人 很少。
Shāngdiàn li rén hěn shǎo.
There are few people in the store.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 少
船上有很多 人 。
Chuán shàng yǒu hěn duō rén.
There are many people on the boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 船
From the graded readers
饭馆里 人 很多。
fàn guǎn lǐ rén hěnduō.
There were a lot of people in the restaurant.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
这次有 人 接了。
zhècì yǒurén jiē le / liǎo / liào.
This time somebody answered.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
台下有 人 笑了。
tái xià yǒurén xiào le / liǎo / liào.
Someone in the audience laughed.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
街上几乎没有 人 。
jiēshàng jīhū méiyǒu rén.
There was almost nobody about.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
我旁边坐着一位老 人 。
wǒ pángbiān zuòzhe yī wèi lǎorén.
An older man was sitting next to me.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
我坐车去，车上 人 很多。
wǒ zuò chē qù, chē shàng rén hěnduō.
I took the bus, and it was crowded.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
From the travel phrasebook
有多少工 人 ？
Yǒu duōshao gōngrén?
How many workers do you have?
Travel phrasebook · Trade fairs and factory visits
这个够两个 人 吃。
Zhège gòu liǎng ge rén chī.
That's enough for two people.
Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu
去 人 民广场怎么走？
Qù Rénmín Guǎngchǎng zěnme zǒu?
How do I get to People's Square?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
能派 人 来看一下吗？
Néng pài rén lái kàn yíxià ma?
Could someone come and look at it?
Travel phrasebook · Hotel check-in
有没有会说英语的 人 ？
Yǒu méiyǒu huì shuō Yīngyǔ de rén?
Is there someone who speaks English?
Travel phrasebook · Airport and immigration
From the grammar library
他是个好 人 。
Tā shì ge hǎo rén.
He is a good person.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 的 for possession and description
你家有几个 人 ？
Nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ ge rén?
How many people are in your family?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Question words stay in place
一共二十二个 人 。
Yígòng èrshí'èr ge rén.
Twenty-two people in total.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
我不是一个 人 来的。
Wǒ bú shì yí ge rén lái de.
I didn't come on my own.
Grammar library · HSK 4 · 是…的 — emphasising the details
这个房间能坐五十个 人 。
Zhège fángjiān néng zuò wǔshí ge rén.
This room can seat fifty people.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 会 / 能 / 可以 — three ways to say "can"
人 appears in 76 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 人
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 人
How is 人 used in a sentence?
This page shows 76 sentences using 人 (rén, "Person (people)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 人 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 人 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 人 an HSK word?
Yes — 人 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 人?
The dictionary page for 人 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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