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人次 (rén cì) — (classifier) person-times; used for total participation count factoring in repeated attendance

Definition

人次 is a compound measure word for the total number of participants counted with repeats — e.g. one person attending three meetings equals three 人次. Use it in reports and statistics, not in everyday speech.

classifier
person-timesused for total participation count factoring in repeated attendance

Examples

  • 人次。
    Zhè cì huì yì de zǒng rén cì dá dào le wǔ qiān.
    The total person-times of this meeting reached five thousand.
  • 人次。
    Qù nián gōng yuán de yóu kè rén cì zēng zhǎng le bǎi fēn zhī shí.
    Last year's visitor person-times of the park increased by ten percent.
  • 人次。
    Zhè xiàng diào chá xū yào shōu jí yí wàn rén cì de shù jù.
    This survey needs to collect data from ten thousand person-times.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

人rénperson
次cìtimes

人 person plus 次 times counts repeated individual participation.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The old form of 次 shows a person exhaling, with the marks above the figure representing breath.

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Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 7-9

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