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人类

rén lèi

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

人类 (rén lèi) means "humanity, mankind". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 人类 means

1. humanity
2. human race
3. mankind

The characters in 人类

• 人rénperson; people
• 类lèikind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble…

Example sentences

• 他们是人类。
  They are human.
• 骄傲是人类的弱点。
  Jiāo'ào shì rénlèi de ruòdiǎn.
  Human pride is human weakness.
• 笑是人类特有的吗？
  Xiào shì rénlèi tèyǒu de ma?
  Is laughter a quality of man only?
• 语言是人类特有的。
  Yǔyán shì rénlèi tèyǒu de.
  Language is peculiar to man.
• 人类是环境的产物。
  Rénlèi shì huánjìng de chǎnwù.
  Man is a creature of circumstances.
• 癌症是人类的大敌。
  Cancer is a great enemy of humanity.

Words starting with 人类

• 人类学rén lèi xuéanthropology
• 人类学家rén lèi xué jiāanthropologist
• 人类起源rén lèi qǐ yuánorigin of mankind
• 人类乳突病毒rén lèi rǔ tū bìng dúhuman papillomavirus (HPV)
• 人类基因组计划rén lèi jī yīn zǔ jì huàHuman Genome Project
• 人类免疫缺陷病毒rén lèi miǎn yì quē xiàn bìng dúhuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Words containing 人类

• 新新人类xīn xīn rén lèinew generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
• 反人类fǎn rén lèiinhuman

Where 人类 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read rén lèi correctly.
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