佣人 (傭人)
yōng rén
Pinyin

Definition

佣人 (傭人)
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yōng rén
  1. servant

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

他这算盘打得可真美，怎么不干脆娶个佣人回家得了。不是我要说，这家是两个人一起住的，两人都应该要付出些什么。
tā zhè suànpán dǎ de kě zhēn Měi ，zěnme bù gāncuì qǔ ge yōngrén huíjiā de le 。búshi wǒ yàoshuō ，zhè jiā shì rén yīqǐ zhù de ，liǎng rén dōu yīnggāi yào fùchū xiē shénme 。
What a lovely plan. Why doesn’t he just go ahead and marry a servant and be done with it. Shouldn’t I just say, two people live in this house, so shouldn’t they both make the same amount of effort?
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什么事都让我做，难道我是你的佣人吗？
shénme shì dōu ràng wǒ zuò ，nándào wǒ shì nǐ de yòngrén ma ？
You make me do everything. What am I? Your servant?
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