Chinese Character Wiki

仞

rèn

ancient unit of measure (8 feet)

Components
亻 unknown component

亻  Unknown component

rén

  

person

刃 sound component

刃  Sound component

rèn

  

knife edge

Evolution

仞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
仞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仞  

rèn

ancient unit of measure (8 feet); 'fathom'; (measure)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5516th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4EDE

Shuowen

“仞，伸臂一尋，八尺。从人，刃聲。”


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