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人間

See also: 人间

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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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”).

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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.

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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 (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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