Nothing is as difficult as becoming a person.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
做人
to conduct oneself
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to conduct oneself
02
to behave with integrity
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 做人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 做人 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I am really tired of living.
That runs against my principles.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 做人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 做人.
Directly before
- 我做人1
- 不想做人1
- 他做人1
- 事先做人1
Directly after
- 做人是1
- 做人的1
- 做人了1
- 做人要1
- 做人总是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 做人
What does 做人 mean in Chinese?
做人 (zuòrén) means to conduct oneself.
How do you pronounce 做人?
做人 is pronounced zuòrén.
Is 做人 an HSK word?
做人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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