人間

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Chinese[edit]

man; person; people
 
interstice; separate; between
interstice; separate; between; among; space; (measure word)
trad. (人間) 人 間
simp. (人间) 人 间
alternative forms 人閒

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 人 間
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 日 (38) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 眞 (43) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 如鄰切 古閑切
Baxter nyin kean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵiɪn/ /kˠɛn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵin/ /kᵚæn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑjen/ /kæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵin/ /kəɨn/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiĕn/ /kɛn/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑĭĕn/ /kæn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑi̯ĕn/ /kăn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		rén jiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jan4 gaan1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 人 間
Reading # 1/1 1/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		rén jiān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyin › ‹ kɛn ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ni[ŋ]/ /*kˁre[n]/
English (other) person interval

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 人 間
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 10800 6226
Phonetic
component 		人 閒
Rime
group 		眞 元
Rime
subdivision 		1 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		仁 閒
Old
Chinese 		/*njin/ /*kreːn/
Notes 原作閒同說文

Noun[edit]

人間

  1. the human world; the world of mortals

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Sino-Xenic (人間):

Japanese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
人 間
にん
Grade: 1 		けん > げん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From a Buddhist term: 人間界(にんげんかい) (ningenkai, “human world”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

人(にん)間(げん) • (ningen) 

  1. human, person, human being
    人間(にんげん)社会(しゃかい)
    ningen shakai
    human society
  2. personality, character
  3. (Buddhism) literally meaning: "human society", referring to one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology.

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Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
人 間
じん
Grade: 1 		かん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 人間 (MC nyin kean|keanH).

Noun[edit]

人(じん)間(かん) • (jinkan) 

  1. (archaic) the world in which people live; the world, society
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Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
人 間
ひと
Grade: 1 		ま
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

人 (hito, “human”) +‎ 間 (ma, “place, space”) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun[edit]

人(ひと)間(ま) • (hitoma) 

  1. (dated, rare) a place devoid of people

References[edit]

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja in this term
人間

Noun[edit]

人間 • (in'gan) (hangeul 인간)

  1. Hanja form? of 인간 (“people, humanity”).

Vietnamese[edit]

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
人間

Noun[edit]

人間

  1. chữ Hán form of nhân gian (“the human world; the world of mortals”).
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