Meaning & readings
person
On’yomi ジン、ニン
Kun’yomi ひと、-り、-と
Nanori じ、と、ね、ひこ、ふみ
Origin
人 is a pictograph of a person seen from the side. The longer stroke is the head and back, and the shorter stroke is a leg striding forward, so the character captures a human figure in mid-step. When it appears on the left of other characters it is squeezed into the form 亻.
Hand-written summary. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (人).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 2
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #5 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+04EBA