Definitions
(noun)
person; people
Etymology
Pictograph of the side view of a standing person.
About
The character '人', representing a person or human, derives from an early pictographic depiction of a human figure in profile, which through successive stages of stylistic simplification was reduced to its essential two-stroke form. Its minimal structure serves as a foundational radical in the construction of many compound characters, imparting meanings related to human attributes, roles, or activities. While the core definition of an individual human being has remained constant, the character's application broadened over centuries to encompass collective concepts like humanity or people in general, and it operates within various syntactic frameworks, indicating its semantic flexibility and enduring centrality in the language.
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他是一个好人。
很多人在这里。
中国人很友好。
这个人是我朋友。
人们需要努力工作。
人类应该保护环境。
那个穿红衣服的人是谁？
在这个世界上，每个人都有自己的梦想。