Character · People
人
ひと hitoたにん taninじゅうにん jūninにんげん ningen
person, human
Composition
Origin
The outline of a standing person seen in profile.
In the thoughts
- 他人taninstranger
- 十人jūninten people
- 人間ningenhuman life
- 二人ninintwo people
Proverbs carrying this character
- 038 情けは人のためならず Kindness is never wasted.
- 039 遠くの親戚より近くの他人 A close neighbor beats a distant relative.
- 049 十人十色 Ten people, ten colors.
- 062 人は見かけによらぬもの People are not what they seem.
- 067 歳月人を待たず The years wait for no one.
- 076 人間万事塞翁が馬 Everything in life is like the old man's horse.
- 089 人の振り見て我が振り直せ Watch others' conduct and mend your own.
- 090 我が身をつねって人の痛さを知れ Pinch yourself to know another's pain.
- 181 秋深き隣は何をする人ぞ Deep autumn — my neighbor, how does he live?
- 200 人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くが如し A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.
- 201 人は城、人は石垣、人は堀 People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat.
- 206 人の噂も七十五日 A rumor lives but seventy-five days.
- 219 この道や行く人なしに秋の暮 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
- 253 二人三脚 Two people, three legs.
- 277 笑いは人の薬 Laughter is people's medicine.
- 284 己の欲せざる所は人に施すことなかれ Do not do to others what you would not wish for yourself.
- 290 やまとうたは、人の心を種として、万の言の葉とぞなれりける Japanese poetry has the human heart as its seed, from which grow myriad leaves of words.
- 298 天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず Heaven creates no man above other men, nor any man below.