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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

贵人

guìrén

nobility

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

nobility

02

person of high rank

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 贵人 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 贵人 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

总是听到有人说何时会碰到贵人,也许我们应该问,谁不是我们的贵人?zǒng shì tīng dào yǒu rén shuō hé shí huì pèng dào guì rén, yě xǔ wǒ men yīng gāi wèn, shuí bú shì wǒ men de guì rén?

We always hear people asking when they'll meet someone who'll help turn their life around, but why not ask instead who isn't that someone?

帝数召入宫,令皇后诸贵人师事焉,号曰大家。dì shù zhào rù gōng, lìng huáng hòu zhū guì rén shī shì yān, hào yuē dà jiā。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 贵人.

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

Directly before

  • 碰到贵人1
  • 的贵人1
  • 诸贵人1

Directly after

  • 贵人师事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 贵人

What does 贵人 mean in Chinese?

贵人 (guìrén) means nobility.

How do you pronounce 贵人?

贵人 is pronounced guìrén.

Is 贵人 an HSK word?

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

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