Even his servants despised him.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
仆人
servant
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
servant
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 仆人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 仆人 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom made his servants eat in the dark.
The mind should be a good servant, but the heart should be the master.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 仆人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 仆人.
Directly before
- 的仆人4
- 好仆人1
Directly after
- 仆人们1
- 仆人都1
- 仆人雇1
- 仆人为了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 仆人
What does 仆人 mean in Chinese?
仆人 (púrén) means servant.
How do you pronounce 仆人?
仆人 is pronounced púrén.
Is 仆人 an HSK word?
仆人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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