CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

平民

píngmín

ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged)

civilian (contrasted with the military)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 平民 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 平民 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

远离宫殿的北方及南方是平民、商人、工艺师傅和工人。yuǎn lí gōng diàn de běi fāng jí nán fāng shì píng mín、 shāng rén、 gōng yì shī fù hé gōng rén。

Farther from the palace and to its north and south were the commoners, merchants, artisans, and laborers.

被突袭后宣告战争是可以预想的，但用炸弹屠杀万人以上的平民却是前所未闻的。bèi tū xí hòu xuān gào zhàn zhēng shì kě yǐ yù xiǎng de， dàn yòng zhà dàn tú shā wàn rén yǐ shàng de píng mín què shì qián suǒ wèi wén de。

Declaring war after a surprise attack is to be expected, but killing over ten thousand non-combatants with a bomb is something unheard of.

所有石油资源丰富的国家都应该被美国军队入侵并摧毁，以保护那里的平民并向他们传授民主。suǒ yǒu shí yóu zī yuán fēng fù de guó jiā dōu yīng gāi bèi měi guó jūn duì rù qīn bìng cuī huǐ， yǐ bǎo hù nà lǐ de píng mín bìng xiàng tā men chuán shòu mín zhǔ。

All oil-rich countries should be invaded and annihilated by US forces to protect their civilian populations and teach them democracy.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 平民.

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

Directly before

的平民2
是平民1
生于平民1

Directly after

平民家庭1
平民却是1
平民并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 平民

What does 平民 mean in Chinese?

平民 (píngmín) means ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged).

How do you pronounce 平民?

平民 is pronounced píngmín.

Is 平民 an HSK word?

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

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