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个人

gè rén

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 個人

个人 (gè rén) means "individual, personal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 个人 means

1. an individual; oneself; (attributive) personal; one's own

The characters in 个人

• 个gè(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 门口有个人。
  There's someone at the doorway.
• 那个人是谁？
  Who is that person?
• 你一个人吗？
  Are you alone?
• 这个人是谁？
  Who is this person?
• 五个人死了。
  Five people died.
• 四个人用餐。
  A table for four, please.

Words starting with 个人

• 个人所得税gè rén suǒ dé shuìpersonal income tax
• 个人主义gè rén zhǔ yìindividualism
• 个人崇拜gè rén chóng bàipersonality cult
• 个人数字助理gè rén shù zì zhù lǐpersonal digital assistant (PDA)
• 个人电脑gè rén diàn nǎopersonal computer; PC
• 个人赛gè rén sàiindividual competition; individual race
• 个人伤害gè rén shāng hàipersonal injury
• 个人隐私gè rén yǐn sīpersonal privacy; private matters
• 个人储蓄gè rén chǔ xùpersonal savings

Words containing 个人

• 我这个人wǒ zhè ge rénme personally; the sort of person I am
• 那个人nà gè rénlit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right
• 先进个人xiān jìn gè rén(official accolade) advanced individual; exemplary individual
• 每个人měi ge réneverybody; everyone
• 半个人bàn ge rén(not) a single person; (no) one
• 一个人yī gè rénby oneself (without assistance); alone (without company)
• 第二个人dì èr ge rénthe second person; (fig.) someone else; third party
• 师父领进门，修行在个人shī fu lǐng jìn mén , xiū xíng zài gè rénthe master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you…

Sounds the same

Read gè rén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 各人each one; everyone

Where 个人 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Government, Society & Leadership (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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