Radical 9

人
← 8 Radical 9 (U+2F08) 10 →
人 (U+4EBA) "man"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	rén
Bopomofo:	ㄖㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	ren
Wade–Giles:	jên2
Cantonese Yale:	yàhn
Jyutping:	jan4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	jîn
Japanese Kana:	ジン jin / ニン nin (on'yomi) ひと hito (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	인 in
Names
Chinese name(s):	(亻) 單人旁/单人旁 dānrénpáng, 單立人/单立人 dānlìrén
Japanese name(s):	(𠆢) 人屋根/ひとやね hitoyane, 人頭/ひとがしら hitogashira, 人冠/ひとかんむり hitokanmuri (亻) 人偏/にんべん ninben
Hangul:	사람 saram
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Radical 9 or radical man (人部) meaning "person" is a Kangxi radical. Of the 214 radicals, Radical 9 is one of 23 which are composed of 2 strokes.

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 亻.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 794 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

人 is also the 12th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 亻 and 入 (formerly Radical 11), are affiliated to the principle indexing component 人.

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  Shang bronze script character
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  Shang oracle bone script character
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  Western Zhou bronze script character
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  Warring States bronze script character
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  Chu slip script character of Warring States
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  Qin slip script character of Warring States
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  Shuowen script character

As an independent sinogram 人 is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy: from pictograph to ideogram: the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

Look up 人 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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