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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Alternative forms [edit]

  • (when used as a left radical)

Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形) – resembles the legs of a human being. The ancient version of this character depicted a man with arms and legs. Compare .

人 人 人 人
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

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

  1. person
  2. people
  3. humanity
  4. someone else

Usage notes [edit]

In print, 人 may have symmetric legs. However in handwriting, to distinguish from , the right leg will be shorter, the shape looking like a ʎ; in 入 the left leg is shorter.

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale yan4)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ ngìn (nyin5), Guangdong ngin2 [Meixian, Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim ngin1, ngin2)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old Japanese.

/hi1to2/: *pitə > ɸito > çito

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /hito/, [çito̞]

Noun [edit]

(counter , hiragana ひと, romaji hito)

  1. person
  2. human
  3. someone else
Derived terms [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
Compounds [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle Chinese .

Pronunciation [edit]

Counter [edit]

(hiragana にん, romaji -nin)

  1. people
Usage notes [edit]

The above reading is used when counting three people or more. When counting one or two people, namely 一人 (hitori, one person) or 二人 (futari, two people), the reading is  (-ri).

Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle Chinese . Later borrowing than nin.

Pronunciation [edit]

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana じん, romaji -jin)

  1. person from that group; -ian
  2. person who does the activity of the suffixed word

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

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

Compounds [edit]


Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun [edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin rén)

  1. man, person, people
    • John 1.4
      生命在他里头。这生命就是的光。
      shēngmìng zaì tā lǐtou. Zhè shēngmìng jiùshì rén de guāng.
      In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin rén (ren2), Wade-Giles jen2)

Compounds [edit]


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*njin)


Min Nan [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

(traditional and simplified, POJ lâng)

  1. person; people

Noun [edit]

(traditional and simplified, POJ jîn or lîn)

  1. person; people

Usage notes [edit]

  • When by itself, 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 (trad. 漢人, simpl. 汉人) ethnic Han Chinese).

Alternative forms [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(nhân, nhơn)

References [edit]


Wu [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

  1. person; people

Usage notes [edit]

  • When by itself, 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.

Compounds [edit]