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食人

shí rén

2-character word

What 食人 means

1. man-eating (beast)
2. to eat people
3. fig. to oppress the people

The characters in 食人

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 他们都食人，除了我，我只是被吃的。
  They are all cannibals here, except me, I'm just being eaten.
• 当地人叫这条河"食人川"并且惧怕着它。
  Dāngdì rén jiào zhè tiáo hé "shírén chuān " bìngqiě jùpà zhe tā.
  The locals call this river the man-eating river and fear it.

Words starting with 食人

• 食人鱼shí rén yúpiranha
• 食人魔shí rén móogre
• 食人俗shí rén súcannibalism
• 食人鲨shí rén shāman-eating shark; same as 大白鲨

Words containing 食人

• 不食人间烟火bù shí rén jiān yān huǒotherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
• 率兽食人shuài shòu shí rénlit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the…