賈人

Chinese

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǔrén

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ ㄖㄣˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǔrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ ㄖㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǔrén
  - Wade–Giles: ku³-jên²
  - Yale: gǔ-rén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guuren
  - Palladius: гужэнь (gužɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

Noun

賈人

(literary) merchant; businessperson
- 天下已平，高祖乃令賈人不得衣絲乘車，重租稅以困辱之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  天下已平，高祖乃令贾人不得衣丝乘车，重租税以困辱之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Tiānxià yǐ píng, Gāozǔ nǎi lìng gǔrén bùdé yì sī chéngchē, zhòng zūshuì yǐ kùnrǔ zhī. [Pinyin]
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Synonyms

商人 (shāngrén)
商民 (shāngmín) (formal)
生意人 (shēngyirén)
生意佬 (saang¹ ji³ lou², “businessman”) (Cantonese)
生理人 (Hakka, Min Nan)
老客 (lǎokè) (literary)

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