人

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Right-falling stroke

to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity

household / the whole family

by oneself (without assistance) / alone (without company)

lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)

average person

septuagenarian

wife's father (father-in-law) / old man

three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact

(slang) to hit sb / to beat sb

lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it