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Kanji Detail for 人 - "person, people, counter"

人

  • Meaning

    人 means "person, people, counter."

    1. Person - A human being; humanity.

    2. Others - Other people; strangers.

    3. Each person - Individually; person by person.

    4. Counter for people - A word used to count people (e.g., one person, two people).

  • Words using 人

    • 三人 さんにん Listen three people
    • 二人 ふたり Listen two persons; two people; pair
    • 人々 ひとびと Listen people; men and women; each person
    • 人口 じんこう Listen population; common talk
    • 人気 にんき Listen popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market)
    • 人間 にんげん Listen human being; human; person
    • 個人 こじん Listen individual; private person; personal
    • 外国人 がいこくじん Listen foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national

  • Four-character idioms with 人

    • 二人三脚 ににんさんきゃく Listen three-legged race; cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies); operating in tandem
    • 人道主義 じんどうしゅぎ Listen humanism; humanitarianism
    • 傍若無人 ぼうじゃくぶじん Listen behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; acting without consideration for others; arrogance
    • 前人未到 ぜんじんみとう Listen untrodden (region, field of study, etc.); unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)
    • 十人十色 じゅうにんといろ Listen several men, several minds; everyone has his own (ideas, tastes, interests, etc.); different strokes for different folks
    • 女人禁制 にょにんきんせい Listen prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission

  • Origin of 人

    A pictograph of a person standing in profile — head, back and legs in two strokes. The character teachers love to read as two people leaning on each other is, in origin, one person standing alone; the mutual-support reading is a later moral, and a good one.

    How to remember it: One figure standing in profile — or, as every Japanese schoolchild learns, two strokes holding each other up.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 人

    • Verified meaning: person, people, counter
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read じん, ひと, ひとざき, ひとたか)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 人

    Given names 人(じん)Listen

    Surnames 人(ひと)Listen 人(ひとざき)Listen 人(ひとたか)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    person

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    man; people; mankind; someone else

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    man, person; people

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The highest of animals. Called 人類 (humankind). | Others as opposed to oneself. Other people, the masses, are all called 人. Such as 無人我之見, meaning not distinguishing between self and others.

  • Onyomi

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    jin(ジン) ジン

    nin(ニン) ニン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hito(ひと) ひと

    ri(り) り

    to(と) と

  • Strokes

    tip

    2 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    person people counter others each person individual human citizen folk mankind mortal population somebody someone soul strangers

Sentences including 人

  • The child is father of the man.

  • Nobody can live by himself.

  • Does anyone here speak japanese?

  • He is a learned man.

  • I get along well with all the staff.

  • I met an american girl.

  • Few know the truth of the matter.

  • A man called on you last night.

  • That's why i told you not to go by yourself.

  • I found her very amusing.

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