食人
shírén
- man-eating (beast)
- to eat people
- fig. to oppress the people
- (figurative) to oppress the people
- man-eating
- to eat people
- to oppress the people
Examples
他们都食人，除了我，我只是被吃的。
They are all cannibals here, except me, I'm just being eaten.
Source: Tatoeba
Containing this entry
| 不食人间烟火 | bùshírénjiānyānhuǒ | otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life |
| 率兽食人 | shuàishòushírén | lit. to lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people |
| 食人俗 | shírénsú | cannibalism |
| 食人魔 | shírénmó | ogre |
| 食人鱼 | shírényú | piranha |