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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
普通人
ordinary person
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
ordinary person
02
private citizen
03
people
04
the person in the street
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 普通人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 普通人 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 普通人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 普通人.
Directly before
- 大多数普通人1
- 一个普通人1
- 个普通人1
Directly after
- 普通人无法1
- 普通人谈论1
- 普通人而已1
- 普通人不配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 普通人
What does 普通人 mean in Chinese?
普通人 (pǔtōngrén) means ordinary person.
How do you pronounce 普通人?
普通人 is pronounced pǔtōngrén.
Is 普通人 an HSK word?
普通人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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