じん
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
Kanji used
person
Pitch accent
Top 1700
Used in vocabulary (447 in total)
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
(one's) life
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
mankind; humanity
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
individual; private person; personal; private
(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
Japanese person; Japanese people
Japanese person; Japanese people
personality; character; individuality; personhood
military personnel; soldier
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
race (of people); type of person
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
woman; lady; adult female
subhuman; demi-human; Argentinian (person); (arch.) American (person)
subhuman; demi-human; Argentinian (person); (arch.) American (person)
talented person; clever person
population; common talk
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
mysterious person
lover; mistress
number of persons; personnel
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
caller; visitor; company; guest
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
military man
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
benefactor; patron
friend; acquaintance
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
eccentric; crank; oddball
person from (the planet of)
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
working adult; full-fledged member of society
the people; citizens; the populace
master; expert
child; small person; dwarf; midget; narrow-minded person; mean person
lunatic; madman
earthling; earthman
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
person of letters; literary person
superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman
individual of taste
private citizen; civilian
performer; entertainer; celebrity
white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
humanity; sidewalk; footpath; human realm
important person
personal connections
American person
personal; inter-personal
foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); gaijin; (arch.) outsider
aristocrat; nobleman; dignitary; person of high rank
human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness
personnel selection
others; other people
human rights; civil liberties
the deceased; the departed
same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique; dōjin
each person
Japanese person
gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; (arch.) low-ranking Shinto priest
Jew; Jewish person
(human) life
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); different person
great person; eminent figure
house; dwelling; human habitation
(an) exile; vagrant; wanderer; nomad
Frenchman; Frenchwoman
alien (from another planet)
foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy
Asian people; Orientals
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
German person
pupil; student; follower
iron man; strong man
modern person; people of today
person of common sense; common sense man
mountain folk; hermit; mountain wizard; word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc.
wise man; philosopher; sage
man of the future; Homo futurus
human bones
barbarian; savage
Russian person
passer-by; traveler; traveller
British person
human speech
person's name
natural virtue; personal virtue
manned; occupied; piloted
private person; individual
human intellect; knowledge
queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs
native; aboriginal
human; personal
each individual; each person
Italian (person)
foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien
Chinese person
God and man; heaven and man
selfless (pious, righteous) man
what nationality
the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece
human flesh
blind person
ordinary person
human intellect; knowledge
human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
free person; free spirit
Briton; Englishman; (the) English
the ancients; ancient people
person of culture; cultured person
civilized person; civilized people
corporate body; corporation; (legal) person; (juridical) person
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
person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person; ordinary person (who has not entered the priesthood); layperson; layman
simulation of a person
villager; village folk; countryfolk
cannibalism; anthropophagism
the people; the public
many people; everyone; all sorts of people
workman; craftsman; laborer; labourer; artisan
Korean person (esp. North Korean); Korean people
master of the tea ceremony; person with eccentric tastes
racial discrimination; racism
celebrity; personality; prominent figure
in company; among people; philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip
Europeans and Americans; Westerners
public character
great benefactor; person to whom one is greatly indebted
Greek (person)
European (person)
lover; sweetheart; mistress
Dutchman; Dutchwoman
Briton; Englishman
human usage; (for) use by people
rustic; country bumpkin; ruffian; unrefined person; non-politician; non-government person
private individual
nice person; good-natured person
person from the Kansai region
number of people; population; human head
rickshaw; jinrikisha
person in the business (entertainment, music, film, etc.)
shepherd; herdsman
Chinese person; (arch.) foreigner
musician (esp. Gagaku)
man of the world; man about town; dilettante; well-informed person
(female) beauty; beautiful woman
Arabian (person); Arab
non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin
gentleman; well-bred man; well-educated man; people
fellow countryman; compatriot; person from the same province; person from said country
cosmopolitan; world citizen
humans and animals; humans and beasts; beast in human form
scoundrel; ruffian; villain
Egyptian (person)
humanism; humanitarianism
modern man; modern person; modernist
Greek (person)
South Korean person
foreigner; alien; stranger
human nature; instinct; humanity; humanism
puppet; doll
predecessor; people of former times
half-human, half-beast; therianthropic
Chinese person (esp. Han Chinese)
scoundrel; ruffian; villain
American person
this world; life
primitive man
(arch.) Japanese person
financier; business leader
barbarian; savage; savage (primitive) people (race)
saint; person well-balanced morally and intellectually
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
Brazilian person
religious organization; religious organisation
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servant)
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture
professional; careerman; worker
Taiwanese person; Taiwanese people
person from the same province, town, village, etc.
sovereign; ruler
the people; the public
Polander; Pole; Polish
residents of the capital; townsfolk
Germanic peoples
contemporaries
person of culture; educated person; highbrow
behind others; losing out to others
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
Mongol; Mongolian
person of refined tastes; sophisticated person; man of the world; understanding person; man about town
naturalized citizen; naturalised citizen
Thai; person from Thailand
Mexican (person)
subjects; retainers
person who beheads somebody to end a seppuku; assistant; helper
husband; good person
incorporated nonprofit organization
personage; person (deserving of respect)
Danish person; Danes; Dane
Scot; Scottish person
sovereignty of the people
signs of human habitation
dunce; fool; idiot
Serb; Serbian person
samurai; person of extensive learning; person of great culture; person of superior social standing
humanities; social sciences; liberal arts
Persian person
person of virtue; great person; giant; adult; exalted person
townsfolk; resident (of a town); merchant
Norman; the Normans
Briton (celtic inhabitant of historical Britain)
Canadian (person)
Celt; Celtic person
life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)
person of ability; person of high calibre; talented individual
Vietnamese (person)
man of virtue; humanitarian
barbarian; savage; foreigner
painter; artist
Semite (speaker of a Semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)
(dyed-in-the-wool) party member; party man; party woman
biographical dictionary
heaven, earth and man
country dweller
lookout; watch; person on guard
depersonalization
person from Tōhoku; Tōhokuite
French person
Homo economicus; economic human; financial expert; businessperson
independent administrative corporation (institution, agency)
great person; outstanding talent; hero
Gaulish people; (a) Gaul
Czech (person)
people living on Honshu; mainland Japanese; Japanese people (as opposed to the people of the colonies of the Empire of Japan)
Chaldean (person)
Sumerian (person)
natural person (e.g. one unspoilt by civilization, civilisation)
child in elementary or middle school; go-between; intermediary; (arch.) person of middling talent, strength, etc.; (arch.) middle-class person; (arch.) bourgeois person
farmer; peasant
extraordinary person; genius
stone image of people
cave dweller; caveman
(a) Philistine; Philistine people
damn Westerner; (lit.) hairy foreigner
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
Dutch people
native of a prefecture
Northern European (person); Nordic person; Scandinavian
Manchu person; Manchu people; Manchurian
adult woman who likes comics about male homosexual love
Hong Konger; person from Hong Kong
ethnic Chinese (living abroad, esp. with non-Chinese citizenship); overseas Chinese
Malaysian person; Malay person
personal; individual
paleoanthropic man (e.g. Neanderthal)
cineast; someone who works in the movie industry
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
internationally-minded person; cosmopolitan; cosmopolite; international celebrity
capable person; talented person
nationals and foreigners
directory; name list
manpower reduction; personnel saving
Carthaginian (person)
human life span; human lifespan
earth and heaven; human and heavenly beings
faculty of humanities
wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo
human desires; human passions
Indonesian (person)
Kyrgyz (person)
Englishmen and Americans
oneself and others
Ainu person
reporter; mediaperson
foreigner; expatriate
national of a third country; foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan
Russian person
Sinhalese people; Sinhalese person
personal appearance; looks
nonreligious wedding ceremony; civil wedding ceremony
outstanding person
Hawaiian person
elder; senior; wife's father; father-in-law
chef; head cook
Middle Easterner (person)
testimony of a witness
Fleming; Flemish person
Finns (ethnic group); Finnish people
Afghan (person)
Epistle to the Romans (book of the Bible)
Kyoto inhabitant
eccentric; crank; oddball
worldly honors; worldly honours
Etruscan (person)
foreigner; gaijin
national of a third country; foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean)
postman; mailman; mail carrier
biographical dictionary
Kashmiri (people)
Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible)
my humble self
person from one's own province (China); person whose ancestors lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang-related immigration wave
person of mixed race; mestizo
Russian person
Melanesian (people)
human brain
progenitor
Levite; member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (who served a religious function)
Lapp people
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
person's rank
human habitation
villain; scoundrel
fortune teller; diviner
national; citizen; native
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
each individual; each person
human sensor; motion detector
Hong Konger; person from Hong Kong
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)
Homo heidelbergensis
Caucasian person
Korean person
Korean (person)
person-year; man-year
carefree person; person living at his ease
Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible)
Epistle to the Galatians (book of the Bible)
Brazilian (person)
straw figure
mainlander; person from the mainland
inhabitants of main island
person and place name
Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido
public corporation; juridical person
person from outside one's own province (China); person who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII; mainlander
person from outside the prefecture; people from other prefectures
nonconformist; free-thinker
artificial language
English-speaking person; foreigner
Kofun people; people of the Kofun period
affiant (person who executes an affidavit)
Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
Westerner (esp. the Dutch)
Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); (lit.) southern barbarian
Examples (29 in total)
Are you Ukrainian?
She is Portuguese.
Bostonians love their city.