原人

Chinese

		former; original; primary former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (原人)		原	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuánrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuánrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuánrén
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²-jên²
    • Yale: ywán-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuanren
    • Palladius: юаньжэнь (juanʹžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴ jan⁴
    • Yale: yùhn yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹ jɐn²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 完人 猿人

Noun

原人

1. primitive man
2. honest person

Synonyms

• (primitive man): 猿人 (yuánrén), 原始人 (yuánshǐrén)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
原	人
げん Grade: 2	じん Grade: 1
kan’on

Etymology

The original meaning was “modest and honest person”.

Repurposed in the 1881 work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a translation of English primitive man.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) げんじん [gèńjíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]

Noun

原(げん)人(じん) • (genjin) ^{←げんじん (genzin)?}

1. primitive man

Related terms

• 旧(きゅう)人(じん) (kyūjin)

Korean

Hanja in this term
原	人

Noun

原人 • (wonin) (hangeul 원인)

1. Hanja form^? of 원인.