HSK 5 · Adjectives

私人 sīrén “private” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 私人 means

  1. private
  2. personal
  3. interpersonal
  4. sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
  5. a member of one’s clique

How to say 私人

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale私sī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising

私人 in a sentence

  1. 她上私人钢琴课。

    Tā shàng sīrén gāngqín kè.

    She has private piano lessons.

    Sentence #844463 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你不应该在社交网络上分享过多私人信息。

    Nǐ bù yīnggāi zài shèjiāo wǎngluò shàng fēnxiǎng guòduō sīrén xìnxī.

    You shouldn’t share too much personal information on social media.

    Sentence #1454427 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你收私人支票吗？

    Nǐ shōu sīrén zhīpiào ma?

    Do you accept personal cheques?

    Sentence #874694 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 私人 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 私 (sī) with each of its parts in a different colour
私sīpersonal; private
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 厶private · sī
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.

How to write 私人

私 7 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.

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

Words related to 私人

Words with 私

自私zìsī · selfish私自sīzì · privately隐私yǐnsī · privacy走私zǒusī · to smuggle

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人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person

More words: Adjectives

实用shíyòng · practical舒适shūshì · cosy熟练shúliàn · practised丝毫sīháo · the slightest amount or degree坦率tǎnshuài · frank烫tàng · very hot特殊tèshū · special天真tiānzhēn · naive

FAQs

私人 (sīrén) means “private” or “personal”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it sīrén: sī with a 1st 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. 私人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type siren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 私人 from the suggestions. Typing siren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
私人 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.