JLPT level N5
Kanji 人 — "Person"
Here is what 人 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Person" stick.
How it is read
On'yomi
じん, にん
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
Kun'yomi
ひと, -り, -と
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
What it is made of
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
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The story
Simple — Person as a kanji means the same as its component!
- 人 Person
Represents a Person turning sideways and stepping their legs apart.
Words that use 人
12 of 72 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 人 ひと person
- 人間 にんげん human being, person
- 犯人 はんにん offender, criminal
- 人生 じんせい (human) life (e.g., conception to death)
- あの人 あのひと that person, he, she (polite)
- 一人 ひとり one person
- 二人 ふたり two people
- 一人で ひとりで alone, by oneself
- 大人 おとな adult
- ご主人 ごしゅじん (your, her) husband
- 本人 ほんにん the person himself, person in question
- 人物 じんぶつ character, figure, person of talent
Want 人 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
