Zi:人

人 [rén] person; 有人吗? Anybody here?; 人人 everybody; 他人 others; 北京人 Beijingers; 外国人 foreigners; 人类 humankind; (radical 9, 人部, 单人旁 dānrénpáng)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

►¹rén* 人 {A} n. person; people ◆b.f. human ‖ Zhè shì ∼ gàn de ma? 这是∼干的吗? Was this done by a human being? ►rénkǒu 人口 ►réngé 人格

The Shuōwén Seal form of 人 rén ‘person’ is a pictograph, said to sketch a standing person as seen in profile (from one side); the person is facing to the left (east, to a south-facing viewer); the first stroke of the modern character draws the arm, and the 2nd stroke draws the head, body, and leg. This component is doubled in 从 cóng ‘follow’ (one person after another).
    Compare: 仁 rén ‘humane generosity/benevolence’; 妊 rèn ‘pregnant’, 任 rèn ‘recommend/appoint; bear/shoulder’; ䷌ 同人 (同仁/人).
    Compare: 匕 bǐ, ‘person’ facing right (west) instead of left (east); doubled in 比 bǐ ‘compare’; in inscriptions 人/匕 are distinguished in compounds.
    Compare: 𠤎 huà, ‘person’ upside down; in Shuōwén 𠤎 huà ‘fallen man’ is simply 人 rén ‘standing man’ inverted; both forms occur in 化 huà ‘change’.
    Compare: 儿 rén (now read ér ‘child’), reinterpreted as two legs, at the bottom of compounds such as 兑(兌) duì.
    Compare: 兒 ér ‘child’, 入 rù ‘enter’, 大 dà ‘big man’, 男 nán ‘man’, 女 nǚ ‘woman’, 身 shēn ‘body’.
    Note: As a component, rén is wr. 亻 on the left side of characters, as in 他, 们, 你, 仁 , etc.
    人 is the ninth of the 214 radicals.
    HDZ: 人 : rén : (甲) 象人侧面站立形 ; 由谷类人猿进化而来的、能制造工具并使用工具进行劳动的膏灯动物; 某人、某种人或某些人 (猎人, 主持人, 北京人, 共产党人); 别人, 他人; 人人, 每人 (人手一册); 自己 (文如其人); 人才; 人的品性行为; 体面, 面子; 身体 (我今天人不舒服; 他人在这里, 心不在这里); 人情事理; 人为的; (简称) 人道: 男女交合之事; 偶, 伴侣; 仁: 果仁 (核); (唐) 以人代民; 仁: 仁爱, 怜悯; (姓)
►references: Guǎngyùn:102.23; Wieger:25a; Henshall:39; Karlgren:AD930,GSR388a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.101.10; Lindqvist:25; Mathews:3097; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:91.01; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:001.0.10; Wáng(1993):2; EDOC:1
►Cantonese: yahn\
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Unicode: U+4EBA
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