Radical 9

亻
Radical 9 (U+2F08)
亻 (U+4EBB) "component-only side form of 人"
Names
Chinese name(s):單人旁/单人旁 dānrénpáng, 單立人/单立人 dānlìrén
Japanese name(s):人偏/にんべん ninben
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人
Radical 9 (U+2F08)
人 (U+4EBA) "man"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:rén
Bopomofo:ㄖㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:ren
Wade–Giles:jên2
Cantonese Yale:yàhn
Jyutping:jan4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:jîn
Japanese Kana:ジン jin / ニン nin (on'yomi)
ひと hito (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:인 in
Hán-Việt:nhân
Names
Japanese name(s):(𠆢) 人屋根/ひとやね hitoyane, 人頭/ひとがしら hitogashira, 人冠/ひとかんむり hitokanmuri
Hangul:사람 saram
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Radical 9 or radical man (人部) meaning "person" is a Kangxi radical. Of the 214 radicals, Radical 9 is one of 23 which are composed of 2 strokes.

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 亻.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 794 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

人 is also the 12th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 亻 and 入 (formerly Radical 11), are affiliated to the principal indexing component 人.