HSK 3.0 Band 3 list · People

人们 rénmen “people” in Chinese

Traditional 人們

What 人们 means

  1. people

How to say 人们

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own们menneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

人们 in a sentence

  1. 我爱这里的人们。

    Wǒ ài zhèlǐ de rénmen.

    I love the people here.

    Sentence #5762990 from Tatoeba

  2. 人们怎么能在飞机上睡觉？

    Rénmen zěnme néng zài fēijī shàng shuìjiào?

    How do people manage to sleep on the plane?

    Sentence #425117 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我老是忘记人们的名字。

    Wǒ lǎoshì wàngjì rénmen de míngzi.

    I’m always forgetting people’s names.

    Sentence #4997121 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 人们 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 人 (rén) drawn as one shape
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.

The character 们 (men) with each of its parts in a different colour
们menplural marker for pronouns
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 门gate · ménSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 门 (mén) hints at the sound. Compare it with men.

How to write 人们

人 2 strokes · 们 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

人们 (rénmen) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 人们 (rénmen). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 人们

Words with 人

人rén · person家人jiārén · family member男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest有人yǒurén · someone大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person病人bìngrén · patient

Words with 们

们men · plural marker for pronouns我们wǒmen · we你们nǐmen · you (plural)他们tāmen · they它们tāmen · they (for inanimate objects)她们tāmen · they咱们zánmen · we

More words: People & Places

有人yǒurén · someone面前miànqián · in front of身边shēnbiān · at one’s side市shì · city海hǎi · sea

FAQs

人们 (rénmen) means “people”. It is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list.
Say it rénmen: rén with a 2nd tone, then men with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 人们 is written 人們. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type renmen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 人们 from the suggestions. Typing renmen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
人们 is not listed as a separate word in the official 2021 HSK 3.0 syllabus, but it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 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.