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人间

rén jiān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 人間

人间 (rén jiān) means "the human world; the earth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 人间 means

1. the human world
2. the earth

The characters in 人间

• 人rénperson; people
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Words starting with 人间

• 人间地狱rén jiān dì yùhell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive…
• 人间天堂rén jiān tiān tángheaven on Earth; nickname for the city Suzhou
• 人间喜剧Rén jiān Xǐ jùLa Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴尔扎克
• 人间佛教Rén jiān Fó jiàoHumanistic Buddhism
• 人间清醒rén jiān qīng xǐng(neologism c. 2021) to keep one's senses; not get carried away…
• 人间蒸发rén jiān zhēng fāto vanish; to disappear from the face of the earth

Words containing 人间

• 单人间dān rén jiānsingle room (hotel)

Where 人间 is taught

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

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