人 (rén): meaning and stroke order
人 (rén) means person; people, 个,位.
人
- Simplified
- 人
- Traditional
- 人 (same form)
- Pinyin
- rén
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Stroke order of 人
人
- rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 2 strokes
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Meaning of 人
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rén
- person; people
- CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Radical and structure
- 人
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 人
- 人人 rén rén everyone; every person
- 人生 rén shēng life (one's time on earth)
- 小人 xiǎo rén person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself)
- 人家 rén jiā household; dwelling
- 家人 jiā rén family member; (old) servant
- 动人 dòng rén touching; moving
- 有人 yǒu rén someone; people
- 人物 rén wù person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)
- 主人 zhǔ rén master; host
- 病人 bìng rén sick person; patient
- 老人 lǎo rén old man or woman; the elderly
- 人名 rén míng personal name
人 in our stories
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他家有五个人。
tā jiā yǒu wǔ gè rén
There are five people in his family.
From the story A photo HSK 1
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公司没有人。
gōngsī méiyǒu rén
There's nobody at the office.
From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
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家里有很多人！
jiā lǐ yǒu hěn duō rén
There are lots of people at home!
From the story Happy birthday HSK 1
Where you learn it
人 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 人
- A photo HSK 1
- Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
- Happy birthday HSK 1
- At the airport HSK 2
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- The first date HSK 2
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).