Cantonese Dictionary

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人緣
relationship with other people; popularity
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人緣好好
popular (referring to people)
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人羣
Mandarin: ren2 qun2
a group of people; a crowd
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人群
Mandarin: ren2 qun2
a crowd of people
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人群管理措施
crowd-control measures
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人老精，鬼老靈
Mandarin: ren2 lao3 jing1 , gui3 lao3 ling2
Simplified: 人老精，鬼老灵
Literally: Elder human is wise, elder ghost is powerful – The grown up | seniors are wiser as they have lots of experienced and have gone through numerous challenges in lives which made them wiser.
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人老精鬼老靈
Mandarin: ren2 lao3 jing1 gui3 lao3 ling2
Simplified: 人老精鬼老灵
The grown up | seniors might have thought things thoroughly because they have experienced lots in their lives
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人老精鬼老靈
Cantonese
wiser with age
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人聲
Mandarin: ren2 sheng1
Simplified: 人声
Human voice
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人聲鼎沸
Mandarin: ren2 sheng1 ding3 fei4
a babel of voices; a hubbub of loud voices
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人肉
Mandarin: ren2rou4
human flesh [written and colloquial]
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人肉打樁機
Mandarin: ren2 rou4 da3zhuang1ji1
Simplified: 人肉打桩机
literally: a human pile driver, can also be used in a derogatory way to describe someone who is fat; a sex machine, to describe a man who has a powerful sex drive [written and colloquial]
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人肉搜索
Mandarin: ren2 rou4 sou1 suo3
human powered search engine (lit., "human flesh search"), a search engine that runs on people power and is often used for cyber-vigilantism (see 死亡日記)
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人肉炸彈
suicide bomber
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人肉炸彈
Mandarin: ren2 rou4 zha4 dan4
Simplified: 人肉炸弹
one strapping a bomb to oneself
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人蔘
ginseng
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人蔘
Mandarin: ren2 shen1
Ginseng
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人蛇
Mandarin: ren2 she2
a stowaway; people being illegally smuggled across a border
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人蠢冇藥醫
Mandarin: ren2 chun3 mao3 shuo4 yi1
Simplified: 人蠢冇藥医
Cantonese
it is used to describe a person who is so stupid that no medicine can cure his | her stupidity
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人行天橋
Mandarin: ren2 xing2 tian1 qiao2
footbridge; overpass [粵]: 行人天橋
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人行道
Mandarin: ren2 xing2 dao4
[1] footpath; walkway [2] pavement (UK); sidewalk (US); footpath (AU/NZ). (Note: AU/NZ English does not have a specific word for the place you walk beside a road for motorized vehicles. "Footpath" is used.) Cant.: 行人路, 行人道
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人要面，樹要皮
Mandarin: ren2 yao4 mian4 shu4 yao4 pi2
people care about saving face
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人見人愛
Mandarin: ren2 jian4 ren2 ai4
everyone will love; lovable; likable
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人見人愛車見車載
Mandarin: ren2 jian4 ren2 ai4 che1 jian4 che1 zai3
everyone will love; lovable; likable
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人言可畏
Mandarin: ren2 yan2 ke3 wei4
criticisms should be feared; gossip is a fearful thing
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人講你又講
Mandarin: ren2 jiang3 ni3 you4 jiang3
Simplified: 人讲你又讲
someone who says things said by others, meaning a person lacks the critical and analytical skills to process information
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人質
Mandarin: ren2 zhi4
hostage; hostages
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人贓並獲
Mandarin: ren2 zang1 bing4 huo4
caught red handed; caught in an illegal act
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人贓俱獲
Mandarin: ren2 zang1 ju4 huo4
caught red handed; caught in the act
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人身
Mandarin: ren2 shen1
personal; on so.'s person or body
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