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名人

míng rén

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

名人 (míng rén) means "famous person, celebrity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 名人 means

1. personage
2. celebrity

The characters in 名人

• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 汤姆是名人。
  Tom is a celebrity.
• 玛丽迷恋名人。
  Mary is obsessed with celebrities.
• 你现在是名人了。
  Nǐ xiànzài shì míngrén le.
  You're a celebrity now.
• 许多名人来这里。
  Xǔduō míngrén lái zhèlǐ.
  Lots of famous people come here.
• 他进入了名人堂。
  He entered the hall of fame.
• 我认识很多名人。
  I know many famous people.

Words starting with 名人

• 名人录míng rén lùrecord of famous men; anthology of biographies
• 名人堂míng rén tángHall of Fame

Words containing 名人

• 知名人士zhī míng rén shìpublic figure; celebrity

Sounds the same

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

• 明仁Akihito, personal name of the Heisei 平成

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