仙人
xiān rén
Pinyin

Definition

仙人
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xiān rén
  1. Daoist immortal
  2. celestial being

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
liàn rén
  1. 1 lover
  2. 2 sweetheart

Idioms (20)

一人得道,鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
sān rén chéng hǔ
  1. 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行,必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)

Sample Sentences

小学时候我们班就有三类人:“仙人”就是那种看各种高端怪书的奇葩(比如卡尔维诺的《宇宙奇趣全集》);“完人”这种人会跳舞会唱歌会主持节目会各种乐器,还奥数好英语好钢琴八级;还有一种人没啥当,只好当“井货”(横竖都是二)。
xiǎoxué shíhou wǒmen bān jiù yǒu sān lèi rén :“xiānrén ”jiùshì nàzhǒng kàn gèzhǒng gāoduān guài shū de qípā (bǐrú kǎ ěr wéi nuò de 《yǔzhòu qíqù quánjí 》);“wánrén ”zhèzhǒng rén huì tiàowǔ huì chànggē huì zhǔchí jiémù huì gèzhǒng yuèqì ,hái ÀoShù hǎo Yīngyǔ hǎo gāngqín bā jí ;háiyǒu yīzhǒng rén méi shá dāng ,zhǐhǎo dāng “jǐng huò ”(héngshu dōu shì èr )。
There were three kinds of people in my elementary school: the Merlin - nerds who read all kinds of wired high-end books (like Calvino’s Trolltech Universe Collection); the Paragon - the kids who could sing, dance, host games, play instruments, were good at all subjects, and could play piano like a professional; what was left were those kids who couldn’t be either, so they could only be “lol"s (It is lol either way).