KANJI: JIN NIN hito (person)

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Character Etymology:

From a pictograph of a standing person as viewed from side on, although when this characer is used as a radical in compound characters the person is often found bending or stooping.

A Listing of All On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi Readings:

on-yomi: JIN NIN
kun-yomi: hito -ri -to

Nanori Readings:

Nanori: ji to ne hiko fumi

English Definitions:

1. JIN: man, person, people.
2. NIN: man, person.
3. hito: man, human being, mankind, person, people.
4. hito(rashii): like a decent person, human.
5. hito(tonari): hereditary disposition.
6. -jin: man.
7. -nin: man.
8. -to: person.

Character Index Numbers:

New Nelson: 99
Henshall: 39

Unicode Encoded Version:

人

Unicode Encoded Compound Examples:

日本人 (nihonjin): Japanese person/people.
人出 (hitode): crows, turn-out.
人為的 (jin'iteki): artificial, unnatural (done by man).

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