Tom is a strange person.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
怪人
strange person
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
strange person
02
eccentric
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 怪人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 怪人 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He is a screwball.
He is really a queer fellow!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 怪人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 怪人.
Directly before
- 个怪人3
- 一个怪人2
- 有个怪人1
- 一群怪人1
Directly after
- 怪人上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 怪人
What does 怪人 mean in Chinese?
怪人 (guàirén) means strange person.
How do you pronounce 怪人?
怪人 is pronounced guàirén.
Is 怪人 an HSK word?
怪人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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