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man; person; people |
home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools |
simp. and trad. (人家) |
人 |
家 |
anagram |
家人 |
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Pronunciation 1
Noun
人家
- family; household
有幾戶人家住喺呢度。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
有几户人家住喺呢度。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]- jau5 gei2 wu6 jan4 gaa1 zyu6 hai2 nei1 dou6. [Jyutping]
- There are several families living here.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) dwelling
東南形勝,三吳都會,錢塘自古繁華。煙柳畫橋,風簾翠幕,參差十萬人家。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
东南形胜,三吴都会,钱塘自古繁华。烟柳画桥,风帘翠幕,参差十万人家。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Watching the Tidal Bore 望海潮, by Liu Yong 柳永, Northern Song Dynasty; Translated by Xu Yuanchong 许渊冲
- Dōngnán xíngshèng, sānwú dōuhuì, qiántáng zìgǔ fánhuá. Yānliǔ huà qiáo, fēnglián cuì mù, cānchā shíwàn rénjiā. [Pinyin]
- Scenic splendor southeast of River Blue
And capital of ancient Kindom Wu,
Qiantang's as flourishing as e'er.
The smokelike willows from a windproof screen;
Adorned with painted birdges and curtains green,
A hundred thousand houses spread out here and there.
- family of a girl's betrothed
- Used after a noun to specify a type of person.
Synonyms
- 室 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
- 家
- 家子 (jiāzi) (colloquial)
- 家室 (jiāshì)
- 家庭 (jiātíng)
- 家族 (jiāzú)
- 戶家/户家 (hùjiā) (literary)
- 房頭/房头 (fángtóu) (literary)
- 親族/亲族 (qīnzú)
- (household): 住戶/住户 (zhùhù)
- (Cantonese: type of person) 家 (jiā)
Derived terms
- 做人家
- 大戶人家/大户人家
- 女人家
- 好人家 (hǎorénjiā)
- 婦道人家/妇道人家
- 官宦人家
- 富貴人家/富贵人家
- 小戶人家/小户人家
- 平常人家
- 有了人家
- 有人家
- 有錢人家/有钱人家 (yǒuqián rénjiā)
- 水上人家
- 白屋人家
- 衙院人家
- 詩禮人家/诗礼人家
- 門戶人家/门户人家
Pronunciation 2
Pronoun
人家
- (chiefly Mandarin, Wu) others (i.e. besides the speaker and the listener); everybody else
你看人家的孩子又漂亮又有才,你卻考個零分。 [MSC, trad.]
你看人家的孩子又漂亮又有才,你却考个零分。 [MSC, simp.]- Nǐ kàn rénjia de háizi yòu piàoliàng yòu yǒucái, nǐ què kǎo ge língfēn. [Pinyin]
- Look at how other people's children are all not only pretty, but also talented. And you? Scored zero on your exam. (mother to child)
- (chiefly Mandarin, Wu) someone specific that the speaker does not wish to name explicitly: he; she; they
別說人家的壞話,人家聽得懂中文。 [MSC, trad.]
别说人家的坏话,人家听得懂中文。 [MSC, simp.]- Bié shuō rénjia de huàihuà, rénjia tīng de dǒng zhōngwén. [Pinyin]
- Don't say bad stuff about him. He can understand Chinese.
- (chiefly Mandarin, chiefly women's speech, endearing) I; me (first-person singular pronoun)
上哪兒去了,讓人家在這兒等半天。 [MSC, trad.]
上哪儿去了,让人家在这儿等半天。 [MSC, simp.]- Shàng nǎr qù le, ràng rénjia zài zhèr děng bàntiān. [Pinyin]
- Where did you go? I've been waiting here forever.
Synonyms
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| Location
| Words |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) |
別人, 他人 |
Northeastern Mandarin |
Beijing |
人家, 別人 |
Taiwan |
人家, 別人 |
Harbin |
人家 |
Malaysia |
別人 |
Singapore |
人家, 別人 |
Jilu Mandarin |
Jinan |
人家, 別人, 旁人 |
Jiaoliao Mandarin |
Yantai (Muping) |
人家, 別人, 旁人 |
Central Plains Mandarin |
Luoyang |
人家, 別人, 旁人 |
Wanrong |
人家 |
Wanrong (Ronghe) |
人家 |
Xi'an |
人家, 伢, 旁人 |
Xining |
家 |
Xuzhou |
人 |
Lanyin Mandarin |
Yinchuan |
別, 別家 |
Lanzhou |
人家 |
Ürümqi |
人家, 旁人 |
Southwestern Mandarin |
Chengdu |
人家, 別個 |
Wuhan |
人家, 別個 |
Guiyang |
人家, 別個 |
Liuzhou |
人家 |
Jianghuai Mandarin |
Nanjing |
人家, 別人家, 別人 |
Yangzhou |
人家, 旁人, 別人 |
Nantong |
人家 |
Hefei |
人家, 旁人 |
Cantonese |
Guangzhou |
人哋 |
Hong Kong |
人哋 |
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) |
人囉 |
Macau |
人哋 |
Zhongshan (Shiqi) |
人哋 |
Taishan |
偌, 人偌 |
Dongguan |
人哋 |
Yangjiang |
俼 |
Baise |
人哋 |
Qinzhou |
人哋, 人家 |
Beihai |
人家 |
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô) |
人哋 |
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà) |
人哋 |
Fangchenggang (Fangcheng) |
人哋 |
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) |
人哋 |
Singapore (Guangfu) |
人哋 |
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) |
第個 |
Móng Cái |
人哋 |
Gan |
Nanchang |
人家, 別個, 別人 |
Lichuan |
人家 |
Pingxiang |
人家, 別個, 別人, 別人家 |
Hakka |
Meixian |
別人, 別人家, 人家 |
Xingning |
人家, 別人家, 別儕 |
Huidong (Daling) |
人家 |
Wuhua (Shuizhai) |
別人 |
Wuhua (Huacheng) |
別人 |
Wuhua (Changbu) |
別儕 |
Wuhua (Mianyang) |
別人 |
Shaoguan (Qujiang) |
人家 |
Changting |
人家 |
Wuping |
人家 |
Wuping (Pingyu) |
人家 |
Liancheng |
人家, 別佬儕 |
Ninghua |
人家 |
Yudu |
人家 |
Ruijin |
人家 |
Shicheng |
人家 |
Shangyou (Shexi) |
別佬人 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) |
別人, 別儕 |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) |
別人, 別儕 |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) |
別人, 別儕 |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) |
別儕, 別人 |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) |
別人, 別儕 |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) |
別儕 |
Hong Kong |
人家 |
Senai (Huiyang) |
別人家 |
Huizhou |
Jixi |
人家, 別人家, 別個 |
Jin |
Taiyuan |
伢, 人家, 旁人 |
Xinzhou |
伢, 人家 |
Northern Min |
Jian'ou |
別人, 兀人 |
Eastern Min |
Fuzhou |
伊儂, 別儂 |
Fuqing |
伊儂, 別儂 |
Minqing |
別儂 |
Matsu |
別儂 |
Southern Min |
Xiamen |
別儂 |
Xiamen (Tong'an) |
別儂 |
Quanzhou |
別儂 |
Shishi |
別儂 |
Zhangzhou |
別儂 |
Dongshan |
別儂 |
Taipei |
別儂 |
Kaohsiung |
別儂 |
Penang (Hokkien) |
別儂 |
Singapore (Hokkien) |
別儂 |
Manila (Hokkien) |
別儂 |
Chaozhou |
別儂 |
Shantou (Chaoyang) |
別儂 |
Haifeng |
別儂 |
Johor Bahru (Teochew) |
別儂 |
Singapore (Teochew) |
別儂 |
Leizhou |
儂阿眾 |
Haikou |
別儂 |
Central Min |
Nanping (Wangtai, Yanping) |
別人 |
Southern Pinghua |
Nanning (Tingzi) |
人哋, 人屋 |
Wu |
Shanghai |
別人家, 人家, 別人, 旁人 |
Shanghai (Chongming) |
別人家 |
Suzhou |
人家, 別人家, 別人 |
Wuxi |
別人家 |
Danyang |
人家 |
Ningbo |
人家, 別人家 |
Wenzhou |
別儂 |
Jinhua |
別浪, 別人, 別個, 別人堂 |
Jinhua (Tangxi) |
別儂 |
Xiang |
Changsha |
別個, 人家 |
Loudi |
別個 |
Shuangfeng |
人家, 別個, 別家 |
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Dialectal synonyms of
別人 (“someone else; others”)
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