ジン
Meanings
Suffix
1. -ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite)
indicates nationality, race, origin, etc.
2. -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...
indicates expertise (in a certain field)
3. man; person; people
usu. in compound words
Pitch accent
Top 46600
Used in vocabulary (440 in total)
mysterious person
oneself and others
wise man; philosopher; sage
outsider
acting inhumanly; inhuman person
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
Japanese person; Japanese people
Japanese person; Japanese people
behind others; losing out to others
human nature; human heart; human spirit; kindness; sympathy
(one's) life
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
lover; mistress
eccentric; crank; oddball
white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
aristocrat; nobleman; dignitary; person of high rank
person of refined tastes; sophisticated person; man of the world; understanding person; man about town
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
mankind; humanity
benefactor; patron
Briton; Englishman
military personnel; soldier
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; deserted
working adult; full-fledged member of society
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman
human rights; civil liberties
human face
(an) exile
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
race (of people); type of person
American person
what nationality
man of the world; man about town; dilettante; well-informed person
the world
individual; private person; personal; private
personality; character; individuality; personhood
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
master; expert
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
humanity; sidewalk; footpath
personnel selection
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
great person; eminent figure
foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy
many people; everyone; all sorts of people
public character
painter; artist
(dyed-in-the-wool) party member; party man; party woman
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
talented person; clever person
woman; lady; adult female
Argentinian (person); (arch.) American (person)
population; common talk
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
number of persons; personnel
caller; visitor; company; guest
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
military man
human body
friend; acquaintance
person from (the planet of)
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
the people; citizens; the populace
child; small person
lunatic; madman
earthling; earthman
individual of taste
person of letters; literary person
private citizen; civilian
performer; entertainer; celebrity
important person
personal connections
personal; inter-personal
true man
personage; person (deserving of respect)
others; other people
old woman
the deceased; the departed
each person
Japanese person
same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique
human intellect; knowledge
low-ranking Shinto priest
Jew; Jewish person
Chinese person
(human) life
alien (from another planet)
foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); different person
house; dwelling; human habitation
Frenchman; Frenchwoman
Western person
Asian people; Orientals
person of common sense; common sense man
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
German person
pupil; student; follower
modern person; people of today
iron man; strong man
mountain folk; hermit
human bones
Russian person
man of the future; Homo futurus
barbarian; savage
British person
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
human speech
natural virtue; personal virtue
passer-by; traveler; traveller
private person; individual
person's name
manned; occupied; piloted
queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak
foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien
personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs
native; aboriginal
each individual; each person
human; personal
servant; valet; (arch.) someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family; (arch.) low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Ritsuryo system); (arch.) ox-tender for oxcarts; (arch.) horse boy
Italian (person)
the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece
Chinese person
God and man; heaven and man
intellectual
selfless (pious, righteous) man
blind person
human flesh
human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
ordinary person
free person; free spirit
primitive man
the ancients; ancient people
Briton; Englishman; (the) English
civilized person; civilized people
person of culture; cultured person
person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person; ordinary person (who has not entered the priesthood); layperson; layman
corporate body; corporation; (legal) person; (juridical) person
Greek (person)
Greek (person)
master of the tea ceremony; person with eccentric tastes
villager; village folk; countryfolk
simulation of a person
Korean person (esp. North Korean); Korean people
cannibalism; anthropophagism
workman; craftsman; laborer; labourer; artisan
racial discrimination; racism
celebrity; personality; prominent figure
philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip
great benefactor; person to whom one is greatly indebted
the people; the public
Europeans and Americans; Westerners
rustic; country bumpkin; ruffian; unrefined person; non-politician; non-government person
European (person)
lover; sweetheart; mistress
scoundrel; ruffian; villain
Dutchman; Dutchwoman
shepherd; herdsman
private individual
rickshaw; jinrikisha
person from the Kansai region
nice person; good-natured person
number of people; population
person in the business (entertainment, music, film, etc.)
gentleman; well-bred man; well-educated man; people
islanders
human usage; (for) use by people
Chinese person; (arch.) foreigner
city dweller
humans and animals; humans and beasts; beast in human form
musician (esp. Gagaku)
Arabian (person); Arab
puppet; doll
(female) beauty; beautiful woman
Jōmon people
non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin
fellow countryman; compatriot; person from the same province; person from said country
cosmopolitan; world citizen
American person
Egyptian (person)
modern man; modern person; modernist
humanism; humanitarianism
foreigner; alien; stranger
South Korean person
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servant)
human nature; instinct; humanity; humanism
half-human, half-beast; therianthropic
Chinese person (esp. Han Chinese)
this world; life
primitive man
financier; business leader
barbarian; savage; savage (primitive) people (race)
Osakan (person)
religious organization; religious organisation
Brazilian person
saint; person well-balanced morally and intellectually
person from the same province, town, village, etc.
professional; careerman; worker
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture
predecessor; people of former times
Taiwanese person; Taiwanese people
the people; the public
Ryukyuan (person)
sovereign; ruler
Polander; Pole; Polish
American person
Mongol; Mongolian
residents of the capital; townsfolk
contemporaries
Germanic peoples
person of culture; educated person; highbrow
Foreign Legion
husband; good person
world of man
people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced continental culture to the Japanese
present-day people; people of this world
naturalized citizen; naturalised citizen
Mexican (person)
Thai; person from Thailand
subjects; retainers
person who beheads somebody to end a seppuku; assistant; helper
Scot; Scottish person
signs of human habitation
incorporated nonprofit organization
Danish person; Danes; Dane
sovereignty of the people
dunce; fool; idiot
Persian person
Serb; Serbian person
samurai; person of extensive learning; person of great culture; person of superior social standing
humanities; social sciences; liberal arts
townsfolk; resident (of a town); merchant
humanities; arts
person of virtue; great person; giant; adult; exalted person
person of ability; person of high calibre; talented individual
Norman; the Normans
life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)
Briton (celtic inhabitant of historical Britain)
Canadian (person)
Celt; Celtic person
Vietnamese (person)
barbarian; savage; foreigner
man of virtue; humanitarian
tableau vivant
biographical dictionary
Semite (speaker of a Semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)
Yayoi people
avid reader
independent administrative corporation (institution, agency)
heaven, earth and man
country dweller
country dweller
person from Tōhoku; Tōhokuite
Homo economicus; economic human; financial expert; businessperson
depersonalization
French person
lookout; watch; person on guard
medical corporation
great person; outstanding talent; hero
child in elementary or middle school; go-between; intermediary; middleman
Australian person
damn Westerner; (lit.) hairy foreigner
Dutch people
Sumerian (person)
stone image of people
Gaulish people; (a) Gaul
people living on Honshu; mainland Japanese; Japanese people (as opposed to the people of the colonies of the Empire of Japan)
Czech (person)
human sensor; motion detector
natural person (e.g. one unspoilt by civilization, civilisation)
Chaldean (person)
cave dweller; caveman
farmer; peasant
extraordinary person; genius
healthy person
(a) Philistine; Philistine people
native of a prefecture
Northern European (person); Nordic person; Scandinavian
Ancient Greek (person)
adult woman who likes comics about male homosexual love
Manchu person; Manchu people; Manchurian
personal; individual
Hong Konger; person from Hong Kong
human life span; human lifespan
directory; name list
paleoanthropic man (e.g. Neanderthal)
cineast; someone who works in the movie industry
Malaysian person; Malay person
internationally-minded person; cosmopolitan; cosmopolite; international celebrity
nationals and foreigners
capable person; talented person
manpower reduction; personnel saving
wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo
earth and heaven; human and heavenly beings
Carthaginian (person)
human desires; human passions
faculty of humanities
native; citizen
Englishmen and Americans
reporter; mediaperson
Indonesian (person)
Kyrgyz (person)
mainlander; person from the mainland
ethnic Chinese (living abroad, esp. with non-Chinese citizenship); overseas Chinese
worldly honors; worldly honours
baseball player
national of a third country; foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan
foreigner; expatriate
Russian person
Ainu person
outstanding person
personal appearance; looks
testimony of a witness
nonreligious wedding ceremony; civil wedding ceremony
undesirable alien
Sinhalese people; Sinhalese person
soldier at the front
chef; head cook
elder; senior; wife's father; father-in-law
Hawaiian person
Middle Easterner (person)
Kyoto inhabitant
Fleming; Flemish person
Epistle to the Romans (book of the Bible)
Finns (ethnic group); Finnish people
Afghan (person)
postman; mailman; mail carrier
biographical dictionary
national of a third country; foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean)
Korean (person)
Etruscan (person)
foreigner; gaijin
common man
my humble self
foreign correspondent
Kashmiri (people)
Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible)
person from one's own province (China); person whose ancestors lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang-related immigration wave
person of mixed race; mestizo
for foreigners
progenitor
personal pronoun
Melanesian (people)
Malagasy person
human brain
villain; scoundrel
person's rank
human habitation
Levite; member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (who served a religious function)
North Korean person
alien registration card
prevailing mood of a locality; emotional climate of a district
assistant in a duel (e.g. a cockfight, poetry contest, etc.) (Heian period); older male in an homosexual relationship
entertainer
national; citizen; native
Lapp people
fortune teller; diviner
public corporation; juridical person
wanted criminal
person and place name
street sweeper (person)
nonconformist; free-thinker
foreign athlete
inhabitants of main island
pastoral poet
straw figure
foreign corporation
foreign correspondents' club
affiant (person who executes an affidavit)
Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia); Parsee
Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)
Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible)
Epistle to the Galatians (book of the Bible)
Homo heidelbergensis
Caucasian person
person from outside one's own province (China); person who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII; mainlander
Brazilian (person)
carefree person; person living at his ease
English-speaking person; foreigner
Korean person
Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia
Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido
artificial language
person-year; man-year
person from outside the prefecture; people from other prefectures
Anthropocene
Korean (person)
Kofun people; people of the Kofun period
Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); (lit.) southern barbarian
Westerner (esp. the Dutch)
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
Examples (28 in total)
Are you Ukrainian?
She is Portuguese.
Bostonians love their city.