Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
愚人
stupid person
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
stupid person
02
ignoramus
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 愚人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 愚人 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
What a pity that there are more foolish people than smart ones.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 愚人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 愚人.
Directly before
- 对愚人1
- 的愚人1
Directly after
- 愚人敢1
- 愚人来说1
- 愚人充满1
- 愚人总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 愚人
What does 愚人 mean in Chinese?
愚人 (yúrén) means stupid person.
How do you pronounce 愚人?
愚人 is pronounced yúrén.
Is 愚人 an HSK word?
愚人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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