Sentence #859357 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters
How 名人 is built
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名míngname
夕evening · xī
口mouth · kǒu
Memory aidEvening 夕 and a mouth 口: in the dark you call out your name.
人rénperson; people
人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.
How to write 名人
名 6 strokes · 人 2 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 名人 (míngrén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
名人 (míngrén) means “celebrity” or “famous person”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it míngrén: míng with a 2nd tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 名人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mingren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 名人 from the suggestions. Typing mingren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
名人 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
名míng2nd tone, rising
