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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

坏人

huàirén

bad person

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

bad person

02

villain

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 坏人 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坏人 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

萨米不是一个坏人。sà mǐ bú shì yí gè huài rén。

Sami is not a bad person.

分辨一个人是好人还是坏人不能仅凭外表。fēn biàn yí gè rén shì hǎo rén hái shì huài rén bù néng jǐn píng wài biǎo。

We cannot tell a good person from a bad one by looks alone.

你可以说他是个骗子, 但是你不能称他为坏人。nǐ kě yǐ shuō tā shì gè piàn zi, dàn shì nǐ bù néng chēng tā wèi huài rén。

You may call him a liar, but you cannot call him a bad man.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 坏人.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 坏人.

Directly before

  • 还是坏人1
  • 为坏人1
  • 那个坏人1
  • 而坏人1
  • 一个坏人1

Directly after

  • 坏人不能1
  • 坏人都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 坏人

What does 坏人 mean in Chinese?

坏人 (huàirén) means bad person.

How do you pronounce 坏人?

坏人 is pronounced huàirén.

Is 坏人 an HSK word?

坏人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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