人
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person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 人
- Common rank
- #4
- Unicode
- U+4EBA
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 人 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
The legs of a human being
How to remember it
person · Heisig RSH #793
— as a component also called: person
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 人
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 家人 | family member; (old) servant | |
| 工人 | worker; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2] | |
| 老人 | old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents | |
| 病人 | sick person; patient; invalid; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 女人 | woman | |
| 女人 | wife | |
| 别人 | other people; others; other person | |
| 男人 | a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 人子 | son of man | |
| 人人 | everyone; every person | |
| 人大 | Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Da4 xue2]) | |
| 人大 | people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of vari… | |
| 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 一人 | one person; a single person; (literary) the emperor | |
| 国人 | compatriots (literary); fellow countrymen | |
| 中国人大 | China National People's Congress | |
| 人头 | person; number of people; (per) capita; (a person's) head; (Tw) person whose identity is u… | |
| 无人不 | no man is not... | |
| 中人 | go-between; mediator; intermediary | |
| 人中 | philtrum; infranasal depression; the "human center" acupuncture point |
Sound family
These characters use 人 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人 sound part | man, person; people | |
| 认 | to know, to recognize, to understand | |
| 氽 | to float; to deep-fry | |
| 倝 | sunrise, dawn |