人家

HSK 6#1321 by frequencyradical 人

rén jia["r","n"]

other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")

rén jiā

household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]

Measure words: 户 (hu4), 家 (jia1)

Examples

人家叫我汤姆。

People call me Tom.

不要捉弄老人家。

Don't make fun of old people.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.