人
Meanings
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- 1.person; people
- 2.CL:个[gè],位[wèi],名[míng]
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Wiktionary
- 1.man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)
- 2.a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er
- 3.body
- 4.everybody; everyone
- 5.other people; others
- 6.physical, psychological or moral quality or condition; character; personality (Classifier: 份 c; 個／个 c)
- 7.manpower; worker; employee
- 8.talent; person of talent
- 9.common people; commoner
- 10.adult; grown-up
- 11.artificial; man-made
- 12.were- (indicates a person who changes shape into an animal)
- 13.used as a dummy pronoun; someone; others
- 14.pluralizes a personal pronoun
- 15.sexual intercourse
- 16.company; companion; friend
- 17.human affairs; ways of the world
- 18.mortal world; earthly word
- 19.Lenition of 人家 (rénjia).
- 20.paternal grandmother
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – side view of a standing man, highlighting an arm and a leg. Compare 大, 立 (lì), 卩, 夭, and 氏 according to one interpretation. See also the original version of 年. 亼 is similar but unrelated; it represents an open mouth flipped upside down and appears on top of characters such as 食, 金, 令, 龠, and 今. It represents a roof in the characters 余, 茶, 舍, and 倉. It represents a flag on a flagpole in 㫃. Eventually, it represents two parallel mountain walls in 谷. The stylized version to the left of the characters is 亻 (see also 千). Similar but unrelated to 彳. Sagart (1999) relates it to Tibetan ཉེན (nyen, “relative”), from ཉེ (nye, “near”) + nominalizing suffix -n; if so, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nəj(ʔ) (“near”). Schuessler (2007) proposes two etymologies: * Same etymon as 仁 (OC *njin, “to be kind; to be good”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“heart; brain; mind”). The semantic association of 仁 with 人 was somewhat late, dated to Mencius's time; later on, 仁 would be usually interpreted as "humane, acting like a human being". ** If so, semantically parallel with Tibetan སེམས་ཅན (sems can, “living being, human, animal”, literally “possessor of mind”); and Latin animalis (“living, having soul”) from anima (“soul”). * Related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɲaʔ ~ *ɲah (“person”) with a nominalizing suffix -n, from the auto-ethnonym of a hostile, possibly Austroasiatic-speaking, eastern people, whom the Sinitic-speaking Shang referred to as 人方 (OC *njin paŋ).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
你是人。
You're a person.
我们是人。
We're people.
没人会讲。
No one will talk.
没人问过。
Nobody asked.
我们是人。
We're humans.
沒人在笑。
Nobody's laughing.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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