仁
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humane; kernel
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 人 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 仁
- Common rank
- #643
- Unicode
- U+4EC1
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Formation & memory
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How 仁 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A caring relationship between two 二 people 亻
How to remember it
benevolence · Heisig RSH #820
二 two + 人 person
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 仁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仁义道德 | compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues; mainly use… | |
| 仁化县 | Renhua, a county in Shaoguan City 韶關市|韶关市[Shao2 guan1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 安仁县 | Anren, a county in Chenzhou City 郴州市[Chen1 zhou1 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 花生仁 | shelled peanut; peanut kernel | |
| 仁人义士 | those with lofty ideals (idiom); men of vision | |
| 仁布县 | Rinbung, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市[Ri4 ka1 ze2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 同仁市 | Tongren, a county-level city in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Hua… | |
| 仁和区 | Renhe, a district of Panzhihua City 攀枝花市[Pan1 zhi1 hua1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 仁和县 | Renhe county in Zhejiang | |
| 一视同仁 | to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people | |
| 仁民爱物 | love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence | |
| 麻木不仁 | numbed; insensitive; apathetic; thick-skinned | |
| 仁爱区 | Ren'ai or Jenai District of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan | |
| 为富不仁，为仁不富 | (proverb, from Mencius) the rich are not benevolent, and the benevolent are not rich | |
| 不仁 | not benevolent; heartless; numb | |
| 仁言利博 | Words of benevolence apply universally (idiom). Humanitarian expressions benefit all. | |
| 果仁儿 | fruit kernel | |
| 杀身成仁 | (idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred | |
| 不成功便成仁 | to succeed or die trying (idiom) | |
| 仁化 | see 仁化縣|仁化县[Ren2 hua4 Xian4] |