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农民

nóng mín

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

农民 (nóng mín) means "farmer, peasant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 农民 means

1. peasant; farmer

The characters in 农民

• 农nóng(bound form) agriculture
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Example sentences

• 农民在春天播种。
  Nóngmín zài chūntiān bōzhǒng.
  Farmers sow seeds in the spring.
• 农民是国家的心脏。
  Nóngmín shì guójiā de xīnzàng.
  Farmers are the heart of a country.
• 农民总是抱怨天气。
  Nóngmín zǒngshì bàoyuàn tiānqì.
  Farmers always complain about the weather.
• 农民们如常在忙着播种。
  Nóngmín men rú cháng zài mángzhe bōzhǒng.
  As usual the peasants are busy scattering grain seeds.
• 在收获季节里农民非常忙碌。
  Zài shōuhuò jìjié lǐ nóngmín fēicháng mánglù.
  Farmers are very busy during the harvest.
• 发生旱灾的时候，农民很难维持生计。
  Fāshēng hànzāi de shíhou, nóngmín hěn nán wéichí shēngjì.
  During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.

Words starting with 农民

• 农民工nóng mín gōngmigrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
• 农民起义nóng mín qǐ yìpeasant uprising; peasant revolt
• 农民阶级nóng mín jiē jípeasant class (esp. in Marxist theory); peasantry
• 农民党Nóng mín dǎngPeasant Party (Republic of China)

Where 农民 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Plants & Agriculture (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 nóng mín correctly.
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