人

Alternative forms

 * 亻
 * 𠂉

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/人
 * 认, 㕥, 汄, 队, 㫃, 㽗, 𬖌, 龪, 𨤿, 閄(𬮘), 䖋, 飤(𬲦), 魜(𬶁), 㞤, 閃(闪)

Glyph origin
– side view of a standing man, highlighting the arms and legs. Compare.

Etymology 1
relates it to 🇨🇬, from + nominalizing suffix -n; if so, from.

proposes two etymologies:
 * Same etymon as, from . 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 ; and from.
 * Related to 🇨🇬 with a nominalizing suffix -n, from the auto-ethnonym of a hostile, possibly, people, whom the Sinitic-speaking  referred to as.

Definitions

 * 1) man; person; people
 * 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
 * 7) manpower; worker; employee
 * 8) talent; person of talent
 * 9)  common people; commoner
 * 10) adult; grown-up
 * 11) artificial; man-made
 * 12)  were-
 * 13)  ; someone; others
 * 14)  sexual intercourse
 * 15)  company; companion; friend
 * 16)  human affairs; ways of the world
 * 17)  mortal world; earthly word
 * 18)  paternal grandmother
 * 1) other people; others
 * 2) physical, psychological or moral quality or condition; character; personality
 * 3) manpower; worker; employee
 * 4) talent; person of talent
 * 5)  common people; commoner
 * 6) adult; grown-up
 * 7) artificial; man-made
 * 8)  were-
 * 9)  ; someone; others
 * 10)  sexual intercourse
 * 11)  company; companion; friend
 * 12)  human affairs; ways of the world
 * 13)  mortal world; earthly word
 * 14)  paternal grandmother
 * 1) adult; grown-up
 * 2) artificial; man-made
 * 3)  were-
 * 4)  ; someone; others
 * 5)  sexual intercourse
 * 6)  company; companion; friend
 * 7)  human affairs; ways of the world
 * 8)  mortal world; earthly word
 * 9)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  sexual intercourse
 * 2)  company; companion; friend
 * 3)  human affairs; ways of the world
 * 4)  mortal world; earthly word
 * 5)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  human affairs; ways of the world
 * 2)  mortal world; earthly word
 * 3)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother
 * 1)  paternal grandmother

Etymology 2
The Min native word for “person”; used as a replacement character for. Use of 人 is recommended by Taiwan's Ministry of Education.

Definitions

 * 1) man; person; people; human being; Homo sapiens
 * 2) a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er
 * 3) physical, psychological or moral quality or condition
 * 1) physical, psychological or moral quality or condition

Definitions

 * 1) other people
 * 2) I; me
 * 1) I; me
 * 1) I; me

Etymology 1
→ →  →  →

From, from.

First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1) a person, human
 * 2) an individual
 * 3) mankind, people
 * 4) character, personality
 * 5) an average person
 * 6)  legal person
 * 7) an adult
 * 8) someone else
 * 1)  legal person
 * 2) an adult
 * 3) someone else
 * 1) an adult
 * 2) someone else
 * 1) an adult
 * 2) someone else
 * 1) someone else

Usage notes

 * When scientifically referring to humans, this term is often spelled in katakana, as.
 * From or  development, hito is sometimes shifted to -uto, -udo, -to, -tto, or -do.

Pronoun

 * : you

Etymology 2
From. The  reading, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare nyin.

Noun

 * 1) a personality
 * 2) the role of that person

Affix

 * 1) man

Etymology 3
From. The reading, so likely a later borrowing. Compare 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) person from that group
 * 2) person who does the activity of the suffixed word
 * 1) person who does the activity of the suffixed word

Usage notes
When compounding, makes the accent fall on the immediately before itself. For example: There is one notable exception:
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)
 * + →  ( is a, therefore accentless)

Affix

 * 1) man
 * : artificial, synthetic

Etymology 4
From. The protoform may have been -ri or -tari, see.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) human

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) human

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) human

Noun

 * 1) people
 * 2) person

Derived terms

 * : Yaeyamans, Yaeyama people

Noun

 * 1) person; type of person

Derived terms

 * : public servant, civil servant, government official

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) human

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) human