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大人

dà ren

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

大人 (dà ren) means "adult, grown-up". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大人 means

1. adult
2. grownup
3. title of respect toward superiors

The characters in 大人

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 你是一个大人.
  You are a large person.
• 他是加拿大人。
  He is Canadian.
• 你现在是大人了。
  You are now an adult.
• 吉姆是加拿大人。
  Jim is Canadian.

Words containing 大人

• 洋大人yáng dà rén(derog.) foreigner treated as superior; privileged Westerner

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dà ren correctly.
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