人: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- person
- On readings (katakana)
- ジン、ニン
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- ひと、-り、-と
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- じ、と、ね、ひこ、ふみ
- Strokes
- 2
- Grade
- 1: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 1
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 5 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 인
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 人
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.