Person

N5 · 2 stroke · 35 kanji

Two strokes — one leaning left, one leaning right — a person standing upright. The most human shape in kanji.

Two strokes. One leans left. One leans right. They balance each other — just like legs. That is a person, 人, walking. It is the simplest portrait of a human being ever drawn. Learn this shape and you will recognise it hiding inside dozens of kanji forever.

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Kanji using this radical
3 kanji
Now / This moment
いま · こん
What
なに ·
Rest / Day off
やす・む · きゅう

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