rén

humaneness

A caring relationship between two  people 

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

二 meaning component

  Meaning component

èr

  

two

Evolution

仁 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
仁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rén

humaneness, benevolence, kindness; humane; kernel

Most common words with 仁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

humane

仁慈

benevolent

杏仁

almond

果仁

fruit kernel

同仁

Tongren county in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huáng​nán​Zàng​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu], Qinghai

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*niŋ

nyin

rén

kind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.6611% of movies

1789th most common character in movies

1360th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4EC1

Shuowen

“仁,親也。从人,从二。忎,古文仁从千、心。,古文仁或从尸。”


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