Skip to content
Mythic Mandarin

人间 (rén jiān): meaning and stroke order

人间 (rén jiān) means the human world, the earth.

人间

Simplified
人间
Traditional
人間
Pinyin
rén jiān

Stroke order of 人间

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

间

  • jiān between; among
  • jiàn gap; to separate
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 間

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 人间

  1. rén jiān Traditional 人間
    • the human world
    • the earth

Radicals of the characters

人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
间
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · built from 门 and 日

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.

人间 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 原来，她的父亲是一位画家，画这幅画的时候突然去世了，她伤心得病倒了，没多久也离开了人间。

    yuánlái tā de fùqīn shì yí wèi huàjiā huà zhè fú huà de shíhou tūrán qùshì le tā shāngxīn de bìng dǎo le méi duōjiǔ yě líkāi le rénjiān

    It turned out her father had been a painter who died suddenly while working on this picture; she fell ill with grief and soon left this world too.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

  • 真龙十分感动：“人间竟然有这么懂我的知音！我一定要去看看他。”

    zhēnlóng shífēn gǎndòng rénjiān jìngrán yǒu zhème dǒng wǒ de zhīyīn wǒ yídìng yào qù kànkan tā

    The real dragon was deeply moved: "To think there is someone among humans who understands me so well! I must go and see him."

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 她向往人间的生活，就带着修炼了五百年的青蛇小青，来到了风景如画的杭州西湖。

    tā xiàngwǎng rénjiān de shēnghuó jiù dài zhe xiūliàn le wǔbǎi nián de qīngshé Xiǎoqīng láidào le fēngjǐng rú huà de Hángzhōu Xī Hú

    Longing for life among humans, she took the Green Snake, Xiaoqing, who had cultivated for five hundred years, and came to West Lake in picturesque Hangzhou.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 人间

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).