Chinese Character Wiki
仁

rén

humaneness

Depicts a kind relationship between two (二) people (亻). 亻 also represents the sound.

Components
亻 sound,meaning component

亻  Sound Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

二 meaning component

二  Meaning component

èr

  

two

Used here to represent the concept of two people.

Evolution

仁 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
仁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仁  

rén

humaneness, benevolence, kindness; humane; kernel

Most common words with 仁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仁

humane

仁慈

benevolent

杏仁

almond

果仁

fruit kernel

同仁

Tongren county in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huáng​nán​Zàng​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu], Qinghai

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*niŋ

nyin

rén

kind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.6611% of movies

1789th most common character in movies

1360th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4EC1

Shuowen

“仁，親也。从人，从二。忎，古文仁从千、心。，古文仁或从尸。”


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