伟人 (偉人)
wěi rén
Pinyin

Definition

伟人 (偉人)
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wěi rén
  1. great person

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
男人
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè

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

时代不同啦，小人物立大功，为理想而付出，能够一夜成名，这才是人们深层的追求与渴望，那种脚踏实地的伟人形象已经不流行了。
shídài bùtóng la ，xiǎorénwù lì dà gōng ，wèi lǐxiǎng ér fùchū ，nénggòu yīyèchéngmíng ，zhè cáishì rénmen shēncéng de zhuīqiú yǔ kěwàng ，nà zhǒng jiǎotāshidì de wěirén xíngxiàng yǐjīng bù liúxíng le 。
These are different times. To go from 'nobody' to 'somebody', to labour for your ideals, to have overnight fame, these are most people's deep-seated pursuits and desires. That 'honest hardworking step by step guy' image isn't popular anymore.
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说得很好。这个概念是我们国家的一位伟人提出来的，同学们想想他是谁？
shuō de hěn hǎo 。zhège gàiniàn shì wǒmen guójiā de yī wèi wěirén tí chūlái de ，tóngxué men xiǎng xiang tā shì shéi ？
Well said. This was a concept that one of our great countrymen came up with. Class, who do you think it was?
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