Example sentences
zhè这lǐ里rén人hěn很duō多。
There are many people here.
tā他shì是shén什me么rén人？
What kind of person is he?
The story behind the character
人
A stroke down, a stroke out. A body and two legs. That's a person standing sideways, unchanged for two thousand years. Xu Shen talked it up as "the noblest of all creatures between heaven and earth," but look at the shape: it's just someone standing there.