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Mythic Mandarin

人物 (rén wù): meaning and stroke order

人物 (rén wù) means person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance), character (in a play, novel etc).

人物

Simplified
人物
Traditional
人物 (same form)
Pinyin
rén wù

Stroke order of 人物

人

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

Stroke by stroke

物

  • wù (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 人物

  1. rén wù
    • person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance)
    • character (in a play, novel etc)
    • (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting

Radicals of the characters

人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
物
Radical 牛 (Kangxi radical 93) · 8 strokes · 牜 on the left, 勿 on the right

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.

人物 in our stories

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  • 在今天的电影和动画里，哪吒常常被画成一个不服命运的叛逆少年，这也让他成为最受年轻人欢迎的神话人物之一。

    zài jīntiān de diànyǐng hé dònghuà lǐ Nézhā chángcháng bèi huà chéng yí gè bù fú mìngyùn de pànnì shàonián zhè yě ràng tā chéngwéi zuì shòu niánqīngrén huānyíng de shénhuà rénwù zhīyī

    In today's films and cartoons Nezha is often drawn as a rebellious teenager who refuses to accept his fate, which has made him one of the mythological figures young people love most.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 人物

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).