人
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Translingual [edit]
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Alternative forms [edit]
- 亻 (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 大.
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
Han character [edit]
人 (radical 9 人+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 人 (O), four-corner 80000)
Usage notes [edit]
In print, 人 may have symmetric legs. However in handwriting, to distinguish from 入, 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]
人 (Yale yan4)
Hakka [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
人 (POJ ngìn (nyin5), Guangdong ngin2 [Meixian, Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim ngin1, ngin2)
References [edit]
- CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
- Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
- Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
Japanese [edit]
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
- Go'on: にん (nin)
- Kan'on: じん (jin)
- Kun: ひと (hito)
- Nanori: じ (ji), と (to), ね (ne), ひこ (hiko), ふみ (fumi)
Compounds [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old Japanese.
/hi1to2/: *pitə > ɸito > çito
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /hito/, [çito̞]
Noun [edit]
人 (counter 人, hiragana ひと, romaji hito)
Derived terms [edit]
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Synonyms [edit]
Compounds [edit]
- 人の世 (hito no yo)
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle Chinese 人.
Pronunciation [edit]
Counter [edit]
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 り (-ri).
Etymology 3 [edit]
From Middle Chinese 人. Later borrowing than nin.
Pronunciation [edit]
Suffix [edit]
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
人
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 인 (revised: in, McCune-Reischauer: in, Yale: in)
- Name (hangeul): 사람 (revised: saram, McCune-Reischauer: saram, Yale: salam)
Compounds [edit]
Mandarin [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
人 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin rén)
- man, person, people
- John 1.4
- 生命在他里头。这生命就是人的光。
- shēngmìng zaì tā lǐtou. Zhè shēngmìng jiùshì rén de guāng.
- In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
- John 1.4
Hanzi [edit]
人 (pinyin rén (ren2), Wade-Giles jen2)
Compounds [edit]
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Middle Chinese [edit]
Han character [edit]
人 (*njin)
Min Nan [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (vernacular) IPA: [ laŋ˧˥ ] lâng
- (literary, Quanzhou) IPA: [ lɪn˧˥ ] lîn
- (literary, Zhangzhou:) IPA: [ ʑɪn˧˥ ] jîn
Noun [edit]
人 (traditional and simplified, POJ lâng)
Noun [edit]
人 (traditional and simplified, POJ jîn or lîn)
Usage notes [edit]
- 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 (trad. 漢人, simpl. 汉人) ethnic Han Chinese).
Alternative forms [edit]
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
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]
人
Usage notes [edit]
- 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.
Compounds [edit]
- Han pictograms
- Han character radicals
- Han characters
- Grade 1 kanji
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese counters
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- 1000 Japanese basic words
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 人
- Korean hanja
- Mandarin nouns in simplified script
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- Min Nan nouns in traditional script
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- Vietnamese Han tu
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