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坏人

huàirén

bad person

HSK 2 · Topic “People and talk”
A sneaky person hiding a purse
Memory picture

Characters in this word

坏 huài

Strokes
7
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 不 no, not, un-
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

人 rén

Strokes
2
Radical
人 — man, person
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 他不是坏人。 Tā bú shì huàirén. He is not a bad person.
  • 坏人跑了。 Huàirén pǎo le. The bad person ran away.
  • 别跟坏人走。 Bié gēn huàirén zǒu. Do not go with bad people.

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