人 — how to write the kanji for “person”
人 (“person”) is a JLPT N5 kanji taught in first grade in Japan. In newspapers it is one of the hundred most used kanji (5th). As one of the 214 traditional radicals it heads 469 kanji in KANJIDIC2. On its own it is the word jin, “-ian; -ite”. Read jin, it forms 人口 (“population”), 個人 (“individual”) and 外国人 (“foreigner”); the native reading -ri gives 二人 (“two persons”). Chinese reads it rén, “person”, at HSK 1.
- Strokes
- 2
- JLPT
- N5
- Radical
- 人 (“person”)
- On
- ジン, ニン
- Kun
- ひと, -と, -り
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- Left-falling stroke ㇒topdown and left
- Right-falling stroke ㇏centerdown and right
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 2 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
Under the radical 人
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Readings
- On (Chinese-derived)
- ジン jin, ニン nin
- Kun (native)
- ひと hito, -と -to, -り -ri
- Meanings
- person
- Read jin
- 人口 個人 外国人 日本人 人事
- Read nin
- 三人 人気 人間
- Read -ri
- 二人
- School year
- first grade
- Newspaper rank
- 5th of 2,500 (KANJIDIC2)
- Korean hanja
- 인 in
- Common words
- 237 in JMdict
Words with 人
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三人 | さんにん sannin | three people |
| 二人 | ふたり futari | two persons; two people |
| 人口 | じんこう jinkou | population; common talk |
| 人気 | にんき ninki | popularity; public favor |
| 人間 | にんげん ningen | human being; human |
| 個人 | こじん kojin | individual; private person |
| 外国人 | がいこくじん gaikokujin | foreigner; foreign citizen |
| 日本人 | にほんじん nihonjin | Japanese person |
| 一人 | ひとり hitori | one person; being alone |
| 人事 | じんじ jinji | human affairs; mundane matters |
Most common first (JMdict).
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