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人山人海

rén shān rén hǎi

HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word

人山人海 (rén shān rén hǎi) means "multitude; vast crowd". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 人山人海 means

1. idiommultitude; vast crowd

The characters in 人山人海

• 人rénperson; people
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 人rénperson; people
• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things

Example sentences

• 那里人山人海。
  Nàli rénshānrénhǎi.
  There's a huge number of people there.

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