rén

person

Pictograph of the side view of a standing person.

Evolution

人 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
人 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
人 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
人 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
人 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rén

man; people; mankind; someone else; person; CL:|[gè],[wèi]

Most common words with 人
Freq.
Word
Meaning

man

女人

woman

别人

others

男人

a man

有人

someone

Component uses

Meaning component in 6 characters (3 verified)

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

Simplified component in 2 characters (2 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ni[ŋ]

nyin

rén

(other) person


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9519% of movies

17th most common character in movies

7th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Unicode

U+4EBA

Shuowen

“人,天地之性最貴者也。此籀文,象臂脛之形。”


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