人

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See also 入, and ㅅ

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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Resembles the legs of a human being. The ancient version of this character depicted a man with arms and legs.

[edit] Han character

人 (radical 9 人+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 人 (O), four-corner 80000)

  1. man, person
  2. people
  3. mankind
  4. someone else

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 91, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 344
  • Dae Jaweon: page 190, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 101, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+4EBA

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

人 (Yale yan4)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology

/hi1to2/: *pitə > ɸito > çito

[edit] Noun

人 (counter 人, hiragana ひと, romaji hito)

  1. person
  2. human

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Kanji

人 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

人
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 인 (revised: in, McCune-Reischauer: in, Yale: in)
  • Name (hangeul): 사람 (revised: saram, McCune-Reischauer: saram, Yale: salam)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

人 (pinyin rén (ren2), Wade-Giles jen2)

[edit] Noun

人 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin rén)

  1. man, person, people

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

人 (*njin)

[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

人 (traditional and simplified, POJ lâng)

  1. person; people

[edit] Noun

人 (traditional and simplified, POJ jîn or lîn)

  1. person; people

[edit] Usage notes

  • When by itself, 人 is always read as lâng. For compound words, Min Nan resembles Japanese, in that there does not seem to be a consistent rule for when to use the vernacular vs. literary pronunciation. Certain compounds will always use the vernacular (ex. siàu-liân-lâng young person), whereas others will always use the literary pronunciation (ex. Hàn-jîn ethnic Han Chinese).

[edit] Alternative spellings

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

人 (nhân, nhơn)

[edit] Wu

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (vernacular, Quzhou) IPA: [ ɲiɲ ] nin
  • (vernacular, Shanghai) IPA: [ ɲɪɲ ] nhin/gnin
  • (literary, Quzhou) IPA: [ ʒən ] zhen
  • (literary, Shanghai) IPA: [ zən ] zen

[edit] Noun

人

  1. person; people

[edit] Usage notes

  • When by itself, 人 is always read as [ɲɪɲ]. For compound words, Wu resembles Japanese, in that there does not seem to be a consistent rule for when to use the vernacular vs. literary pronunciation.

[edit] Compounds

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