Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 4
人 person
- Meaning
- person
- On reading
- ジン・ニン
- Kun reading
- ひと
Memory hook
Two strokes like a pair of legs mid-stride: a person seen from the side. ジン or ニン in compounds, ひと on its own. 日本人 nihonjin, a Japanese person.
Words that use 人
人
ひと
person
一人
ひとり
one person
How to write 人
Stroke order · 2 strokes
1
2
- 1. The sweep down to the left.
- 2. The diagonal down to the right.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
人 is taught on day 18 of the kanji course, alongside 男 女 子, with two writing passes and a short quiz.