🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

人权

Pronunciation / Transliteration: rén quán

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Human rights/ˈhjuː.mən ˌraɪts/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"保护人权是国际社会的共同责任。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.

    "The international community must unite to protect and defend human rights across all borders."
  2. 2

    Fundamental moral principles or norms that set out certain standards of human behavior and are regularly protected as legal rights.

    "Her life's work has been dedicated to advocating for human rights and fighting against social injustice."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term derives from the combination of the English noun 'human' (from Latin 'humanus') and 'rights' (from Old English 'riht', meaning 'correct, straight, or just'). While philosophical concepts of natural rights date back to antiquity and the Enlightenment, the modern coinage 'human rights' gained widespread international usage following the establishment of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

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