HSK 3.0 Band 3 list · People

有人 yǒurén “someone” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 有人 means

  1. someone
  2. some people
  3. people
  4. anyone
  5. there is someone there
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • occupied (as in restroom)

How to say 有人

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale有yǒu3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising

有人 in a sentence

  1. 房间里有人吗？

    Fángjiān lǐ yǒurén ma?

    Is there anyone in the room?

    Sentence #349657 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 刚刚有人给你打电话。

    Gānggāng yǒurén gěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà.

    Someone just called you.

    Sentence #2335916 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 在这里有人会说汉语吗？

    Zài zhèlǐ yǒurén huì shuō Hànyǔ ma?

    Can anyone here speak Mandarin?

    Sentence #1173432 from Tatoeba

How 有人 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 有 (yǒu) drawn as one shape
有yǒuto have; there is

有 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA hand holding a piece of meat 月: to have.

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 有人

有 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.

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

Words related to 有人

Words with 有

有yǒu · to have没有méiyǒu · not to have有的yǒude · (there are) some (who are…)有些yǒuxiē · some有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly有时yǒushí · sometimes有意思yǒuyìsi · interesting有名yǒumíng · famous只有zhǐyǒu · only有关yǒuguān · to be related to

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人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person病人bìngrén · patient

More words: People & Places

人们rénmen · people面前miànqián · in front of身边shēnbiān · at one’s side市shì · city海hǎi · sea

FAQs

有人 (yǒurén) means “someone” or “some people”. It is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list.
Say it yǒurén: yǒu with a 3rd 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. 有人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 有人 from the suggestions. Typing youren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
有人 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.