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人士

rén shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

人士 (rén shì) means "person". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 人士 means

1. person
2. figure
3. public figure

The characters in 人士

• 人rénperson; people
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Words containing 人士

• 知名人士zhī míng rén shìpublic figure; celebrity
• 各界人士gè jiè rén shìall walks of life
• 专业人士zhuān yè rén shìa professional
• 活动人士huó dòng rén shìactivist
• 维权人士wéi quán rén shìcivil rights activist

Sounds the same

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

• 人事personnel; human resources; human affairs
• 人世the world; this world; the world of the living
• 人氏native; person from a particular place
• 人势(human) penis (TCM)

Where 人士 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · rén–rèn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read rén shì correctly.
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