人

rén
noun HSK 1 #24

Meanings

  1. 1 person
  2. 2 people

Examples

HSK 1
Zhèlǐ yǒu hěnduō rén.
There are a lot of people here.
HSK 1
Tā shì yī gè hǎo rén.
He's a good person.
HSK 3
Zhōngguó rén hěn rèqíng.
Chinese people are very warm and friendly.

Tips

memory
The character 人 looks like a person walking - two legs in stride.
usage
人 is used to form nationality words: 中国人 (Chinese person), 美国人 (American), 日本人 (Japanese person).

Components

pictograph
人 rén
person
A pictograph of a person seen from the side - the two crossing strokes are the legs in mid-stride, the apex is the torso. As a left-side radical it compresses to 亻 (vertical person) and powers a huge family of person/social characters: 你, 他, 们, 来, 信, 仁, 休, 仔. One of the most fundamental glyphs in the script.

Radical

Person Kangxi #9

One of the most productive radicals in the language. Marks characters about people, social roles, and human action - 你, 他, 们, 来, 仁, 休, 信. The compressed left-side form 亻 dominates in compounds; the standalone 人 keeps its full pictographic stride.

Forms
人 rén
Default 24 characters
亻 dānrénpáng
Left 208 characters
𠆢 rén
Top 0 characters

Used in

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会 huì
can; to know how to · will (future)
会 kuài
accounting · to reckon accounts
从 cóng
from · since
以 yǐ
by means of; with · in order to; so as to
令 lìng
to order; to command · to cause; to make (someone do or feel something)
令 lǐng
ream (500 sheets of paper)

Stroke Order

人 rén