IDENTITY
人rénperson; people
HSK 1Top 8
CORE MEANING
person; people
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.personHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 人person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 2
- Structure
- single pictograph
- IDS sequence
- 人
USAGE
Common words
人们rénmenpeople
大人dàrénadult
人口rénkǒupopulation
Graded examples
你是哪国人？Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?HSK1
What country are you from?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 入
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two legs striding — a person walking.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #8
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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