| 出人意料 | chū rén yì liào | exceeds expectations (idiom); much better than anticipated; unexpected |
| 出人意表 | chū rén yì biǎo | to exceed all expectations; to come as a surprise |
| 出人头地 | chū rén tóu dì | outstanding (idiom); a pinnacle of virtue and ability |
| 出品人 | chū pǐn rén | producer (film) |
| 出家人 | chū jiā rén | monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist) |
| 函人 | hán rén | armor maker |
| 分析人士 | fēn xī rén shì | analyst; expert |
| 刑人 | xíng rén | criminal to be executed; to execute a criminal |
| 利害关系人 | lì hài guān xi rén | stakeholder; interested party; interested person |
| 利用人工吹气 | lì yòng rén gōng chuī qì | oral inflation |
前人栽树，
后人乘凉 | qián rén zāi shù ,
hòu rén chéng liáng | to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom) |
| 前无古人后无来者 | qián wú gǔ rén hòu wú lái zhě | to surpass all others of its kind before and since; to have neither predecessors nor successors |
| 创始人 | chuàng shǐ rén | creator; founder; initiator |
| 创立人 | chuàng lì rén | founder |
| 创办人 | chuàng bàn rén | founder (of an institution etc) |
| 助人为快乐之本 | zhù rén wéi kuài lè zhī běn | pleasure from helping others |
| 动人心魄 | dòng rén xīn pò | to move and thrill (idiom); exciting |
| 勾人 | gōu rén | sexy; seductive |
| 北京人 | běi jīng rén | person from Beijing; Peking Man (Sinanthropus pekinesis); Beijing resident; Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店, Beijing |
| 北京人民大会堂 | Běi jīng rén mín dà huì táng | the Great Hall of the People in Beijing |
| 北京工人体育场 | Běi jīng Gōng rén Tǐ yù chǎng | Workers Stadium |
| 北京猿人 | Běi jīng yuán rén | Peking ape-man; Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店 in 1921 |
十年树木，
百年树人 | shí nián shù mù ,
bǎi nián shù rén | It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop. |
| 千古罪人 | qiān gǔ zuì rén | sb condemned by history (idiom) |
千里送鹅毛，
礼轻人意重 | qiān lǐ sòng é máo ,
lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng | goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it. |
| 半人马 | bàn rén mǎ | centaur (mythology) |
| 半人马座 | Bàn rén mǎ zuò | Centaurus (constellation) |
| 协调人 | xié tiáo rén | coordinator |
| 印度人 | Yìn dù rén | Indian (person); CL:个; Indian people |
| 印度人民党 | Yìn dù rén mín dǎng | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 印欧人 | yìn ōu rén | Indo-European (person) |
| 危地马拉人 | Wēi dì mǎ lā rén | Guatemalan (person) |
| 危重病人 | wēi zhòng bìng rén | critically ill patient |
| 原人 | yuán rén | prehistoric man; primitive man |
| 厌恶人类者 | yàn wù rén lèi zhě | misanthrope |
| 去台人员 | qù Tái rén yuán | those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 |
| 参选人 | cān xuǎn rén | election participant; candidate |
| 反人道罪 | fǎn rén dào zuì | a crime against humanity |
| 反人道罪行 | fǎn rén dào zuì xíng | crime against humanity |
| 反人类 | fǎn rén lèi | inhuman |
| 反人类罪 | fǎn rén lèi zuì | crimes against humanity |
| 叔丈人 | shū zhàng rén | wife's uncle |
| 受保人 | shòu bǎo rén | the insured person; the person covered by an insurance policy |
| 受刑人 | shòu xíng rén | person being executed; victim of corporal punishment; person serving a sentence |
| 受害人 | shòu hài rén | victim (of accident or murder) |
| 受益人 | shòu yì rén | the beneficiary; the person who benefits |
| 受托人 | shòu tuō rén | (law) trustee |
| 古人类 | gǔ rén lèi | ancient hominid species such as Homo erectus, Neanderthal man etc |
| 台湾人 | Tái wān rén | Taiwanese people |
| 史前人 | shǐ qián rén | prehistoric man |
