人

person

Builds 230 distinct compound words — ranked #1 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ジン・ニン
訓 kun: ひと

The person involved. As a suffix it names them by category — 友人 a friend, 本人 the person themselves. ジン tends toward nationality and type, ニン toward counting and roles.

The ten most common compounds built on 人. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

230compounds built

10,480times those words occur

#2by productivity alone

#5by how often it turns up

Where 人 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 人. Each one opens its own map.

一one一人#2 日sun; day日本人#5 生life; born; raw人生#7 間interval; between人間#12 本book; origin; main日本人#21 二two二人#78

Words built on 人

人ひと3,521 uses

人々ひとびと622 uses

友人ゆうじん449 uses

人間にんげん418 uses

二人ふたり406 uses

一人ひとり393 uses

人生じんせい309 uses

人達ひとたち283 uses

他人たにん269 uses

老人ろうじん248 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.