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See also: 人间

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
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

人間

  1. the human world; the world of mortals
Kanji in this term
人 間
にん
Grade: 1 		けん > げん
Grade: 2
goon

From Middle Chinese 人間 (MC nyin kean|keanH). Analyzable as a compound of "people" + "among; space".

First cited to a text from 984.[1] The kanji spelling is cited earlier in a kanbun passage in the Shoku Nihongi of 756, listed in some references[1] with the reading jinkan. However, the extant copies of this work that include phonetic guides are centuries younger than this first date, raising the possibility that the ningen reading might itself date from 756.

人(にん)間(げん) • (ningen) 

  1. [from 1120] human, person, human being
    人間(にんげん)社会(しゃかい)
    ningen shakai
    human society
  2. [date uncertain] personality, character
  3. [from 984? from 756?] (Buddhism) literally meaning: "human society", referring to one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology (more commonly referred to with the jinkan reading)
Kanji in this term
人 間
じん
Grade: 1 		かん
Grade: 2
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese 人間 (MC nyin kean|keanH). Analyzable as a compound of "people" + "among; space".

First cited in a kanbun passage in the Shoku Nihongi of 756, listed in some references[1] with the reading jinkan. However, the extant copies of this work that include phonetic guides are centuries younger than this first date, raising the possibility that the jinkan reading might be younger than this date.

人(じん)間(かん) • (jinkan) 

  1. [from 756?] (archaic) the world in which people live; the world, society
Kanji in this term
人 間
ひと
Grade: 1 		ま
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

A compound of 人 (hito, “people”) +‎ 間 (ma, “gap”). First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720,[1] and also attested in the Man'yōshū of 759.[4]

人(ひと)間(ま) • (hitoma) 

  1. [from 720] (dated, rare) a place devoid of people
  2. [from 1505] (dated, rare) a period of no contact with a person
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “人間”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^
Hanja in this term
人間

人間 • (in'gan) (hangeul 인간)

  1. hanja form? of 인간 (“people, humanity”)
Kanji in this term
人 間
にん
Grade: 1 		きん > ぎん
Grade: 2
on'yomi
  • (Tarama) IPA(key): /ninɡin/
  • (Nakachi, Irabu) IPA(key): /niŋɡiŋ/

人(にん)間(ぎん) (ningin) 

  1. human, person, human being
  2. personality, character
  • Tokuyama, Shun'ei (渡久山春英), Kenan, Celik (セリック・ケナン) (2020) 南琉球宮古語多良間方言辞典 [A Dictionary of Tarama Miyako, a dialect of Southern Ryukyuan], Tokyo (東京都): Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, Gengo Hen'i Kenkyū Ryōiki (国立国語研究所 言語変異研究領域), →ISBN, page 343
  • Tomihama, Sadayoshi (富浜定吉) (2013) 宮古伊良部方言辞典 [Miyako Irabu Dialect Dictionary], Naha (那覇市): Okinawa Times (沖縄タイムス社), →ISBN, page 504
Kanji in this term
人 間
にん
Grade: 1 		きん > ぢん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

人(にん)間(ぢん) (ninjin) 

  1. human, person, human being
  • Miyara, Shinshō (宮良信詳) (2021) うちなーぐち活用辞典 [Dictionary of the Practical Use of Okinawan] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京都): Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, Gengo Hen'i Kenkyū Ryōiki (国立国語研究所 言語変異研究領域), →DOI, →ISBN, page 233
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
人間

人間

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