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行人

xíng rén

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

行人 (xíng rén) means "pedestrian". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 行人 means

1. pedestrian
2. traveler on foot
3. passer-by
4. official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor

The characters in 行人

• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…
• 人rénperson; people

Words starting with 行人

• 行人径xíng rén jìngfootway

Words containing 行人

• 发行人fā xíng rénpublisher; issuer
• 执行人zhí xíng rénexecutioner (hangman); business executor
• 被执行人bèi zhí xíng rén(law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement…
• 失信被执行人shī xìn bèi zhí xíng rén(law) judgement defaulter…
• 修行人xiū xíng rénperson pursuing religious practice (Buddhism)
• 随行人员suí xíng rén yuánentourage; retinue

Sounds the same

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

• 刑人criminal to be executed; to execute a criminal

Where 行人 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Action, Behavior & Conduct (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 xíng rén correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.