麗人

Chinese

		beautiful; Korea	man; person; people
trad. (麗人)		麗	人
simp. (丽人)		丽	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìrén
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-jên²
    • Yale: lì-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihren
    • Palladius: лижэнь (ližɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lai⁶ jan⁴
    • Yale: laih yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁶ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²² jɐn²¹/

Noun

麗人

1. (literary) beauty; beautiful woman

Synonyms

• 佳人 (jiārén)
• 佳麗／佳丽 (jiālì) (literary)
• 出水芙蓉 (chūshuǐfúróng) (figurative)
• 嫭 (hù) (literary)
• 嬌／娇 (jiāo)
• 紅顏／红颜 (hóngyán) (literary, figurative)
• 美人 (měirén)
• 美女 (měinǚ)
• 行雨 (xíngyǔ) (literary, figurative)
• 靚女／靓女 (chiefly Cantonese)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 美女 (“beautiful woman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		美女, 美人, 佳人, 佳麗, 麗人, 紅顏, 嬋娟
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		美女, 美人, 佳人
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	美人兒
	Taiwan	美女
Mandarin	Singapore	美女
Cantonese	Guangzhou	靚女
	Hong Kong	靚女
	Taishan	靚女
	Kaiping (Chikan)	靚女
	Dongguan	靚女
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	靚女
	Singapore (Guangfu)	靚女
Hakka	Meixian	標緻妹仔, 靚妹仔, 靚女
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	靚女
Southern Min	Xiamen	媠查某
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	媠查某
	Quanzhou	媠查某
	Anxi	媠查某
	Zhangzhou	媠查某
	Zhao'an	媠查某
	Singapore (Hokkien)	媠查某, 俏母
	Manila (Hokkien)	媠查某
	Shantou	雅諸娘
	Jieyang	雅諸娘, 雅儂
	Leizhou	顯娘
	Wenchang	靚母
	Singapore (Hainanese)	靚母
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	靚妹

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (麗人):

• → Japanese: 麗人(れいじん) (reijin)
• → Korean: 려인(麗人) (ryeoin), 여인(麗人) (yeoin)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
麗	人
れい Grade: S	じん Grade: 1
kan’on

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) れーじん [rèéjíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːʑĩɴ]

Noun

麗(れい)人(じん) • (reijin) ^{←れいじん (reizin)?}

1. Synonym of 美人 (bijin, “beautiful woman”)

   男装(だんそう)の麗人(れいじん)

   dansō no reijin

   a handsome woman in men's clothing (common collocation)

See also

• 高麗(こま)人(うど) (Komaudo)
• 高(こう)麗(らい)人(にん)参(じん) (Kōrai ninjin)