漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
仁: humanity, virtue
Also: benevolence, charity, man, kernel
JLPT N14 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 二 gives the sound
4 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ジンjin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 仁義じんぎcharity & righteousness
- 仁徳じんとくbenevolence, goodness
- 仁愛じんあいbenevolence, charity, love
- 仁じんbenevolence (esp. as a virtue of…
ニni · on'yomi
- 仁王におうthe two guardian Deva kings
Also read ニン, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
仁 takes the 二 family's reading, ニ (ni).
Also read ニン
7 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side仁 humanity · 二
vs仕 attend · 士In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · rén
Same form: 仁 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 仁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 仁 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin rén most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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