ニン
Meanings
Counter
1. counter for people
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (278 in total)
① 罪を犯した人。
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; deserted
each person; everybody
① 人数が2であること。② 恋愛関係にある男女。
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
merchant; trader; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine
① 漢字の部首「⺅」が偏である場合の呼称。
accused; defendant; prisoner at the bar
several people; a few people
group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants); non-human
one person
① 多くの人々。
① 自分の持っている技術や技能で、手作業にて物を作る職業。
① 死んだ人。
① 人が本来有するとされる温かい感情。② 一般の人々の考え、常識。③ 心付け、贈り物、賄賂。
instigator
① 人が、三の数であること。
① 直接の関係をもつ人自身。
① 自分以外の人。② 血縁や知己などではなく縁遠い人。
① 人が、四の数であること。
① 病気に罹っている人。
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
manager; executive
① 俗界を離れ山中で修行し、不老不死で神通力を得た人。② 無欲で世間離れした人。
playboy; libertine; (professional) gambler; person without a steady job; idler
dancer (esp. a bugaku dancer)
offender; criminal
janitor; cleaner
observer; spectator (e.g. in court); (member of the) public; visitor; audience; gallery
bill collector
① 一定の年齢に達した人。現代日本では18歳または20歳以上の人。成人。② 年齢を重ね、十分な判断力を有し、社会的な責任を負えるとみなされるようになった人。ものごとの理非をよくわきまえ、わがままを言わない人。③ 年齢を重ね、特定の行為が可能となったり感覚が理解できるようになったりした人。④ 聞き分けよくおとなしくしていること。⑤ 性的に成熟した人。精通または初潮のあった人。童貞または処女を失った人。また性に関する換喩。
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
employee; servant
how many people; a number of people
① その土地・家に住んでいる人。
① 料理を作る職業。
① 別の人。その人とは異なる人。同一ではない人物。
① 政府機関に勤める人。② 統治者に仕えて、統治を補佐する者。
the person concerned; the person in question; the said person
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; deserted
① 事実を証明する人。
wounded person; injured person
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
administrator; janitor; manager; custodian; executor
client; requester
passerby; pedestrian; foot passenger
counsel; defender; advocate
peddler; pedlar; hawker
child; small person
① 番をする人。
entertainer (esp. in a traditional art); performer; artiste; talented person; accomplished person
acting inhumanly; inhuman person
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
① 善良な人。② お人好し。
guide (on a tour, etc.)
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
① 人として守るべき道。② 人が通るよう決められた道。歩道。
① 身分や地位が高い人。貴族。② 古代中国における后妃の位の一つ。③ 陰陽道の神である天一神の別称の一つ。
retainer; vassal; servant
① 他人の代理をする人。② 代理権を持ち、本人に代わって意思表示をしたり受けたりする権限を持つ人。
① 人の顔つき。② 人の顔つきに現れたその人の性格や運勢。③ 人の顔つきを見てその人の運命や吉凶を占うこと。
poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent
others; other people
person living with a family; lodger; housemate; flatmate; roommate
same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique
① 見物する人。
coolie; laborer; labourer; carrier
how many people
both people
witness; observer
natural virtue; personal virtue
① ある人のした債務等に責任を負う人。
servant; employee
① 極悪な人。極めて悪い人物。この上ない悪人。
scum of the earth; monster; fiend
leading person; foremost figure
manager; steward; factotum; useful person
worldly-wise man
tremendous strength; (lit.) strength of a hundred people
street performer (comedian)
rebel; traitor
office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker
(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards
person given as a reference; witness; potential suspect; person of interest; witness
delivery person
ruler of the whole country; person who holds the reins of government
broker; jobber
negotiator; bargainer; point man
philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip
tenant farmer
① 意中の人、恋人。② 情夫。情婦。
seriously sick person
① 被相続人の財産上の地位を承継する者。
① 公共の地位や立場を抜きにして考えた個人。
sponsor; manager; go-between; mediator; agent; caretaker
originator; promoter
lodger; roomer
several men, several minds; everyone has his own ideas and tastes; everyone has his own interests and ideas; different strokes for different folks
number of people; population
joint surety; surety jointly and severally liable; co-maker; co-endorser; co-signer
criminal; culprit; offender; rogue
the same person
professional; person good at a particular job; person who does their job without mistakes
carrier; conveyor
mailman; postman; mail carrier; post carrier
notary public; notary; public notary
judge; appraiser
low-rank person; menial
① 容貌、技量などが普通であること。
gambler; yakuza; person without a legitimate job
best man; groomsman; bridesmaid; second (e.g. in a duel)
emergency case; person that has suddenly taken ill
① 商家の若奥さん。主人の妻、又は大旦那の娘。「旦さん/旦那さん」と対になる。主に関西以西の呼称。口述では訛って「ごりょんさん」「ごりょんはん」などと称する。(一般家庭の婦人に用いるのは誤り)
① 律令制において、不法に本貫(本来の住所)を離れて別の土地に住む者。
issuer; publisher
human interest; kindness
low-call people
scum of the earth; monster; fiend
land agent; house agent; real estate agent
census-taking
runaway (esp. child)
nurse (male or female); personal care attendant
matchmaker; go-between
person who looks after a patient
worshiper; visitor to temple or shrine
strength of a thousand men; cloth with the character for "strength" written by a thousand men (soldier's charm)
trustee; receiver; administrator
husband; good person
person; personal
tenant; renter
tenant; renter
(personal) guarantor; (personal) surety; person providing a character reference
manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)
someone who has come to say farewell; those who have come to say farewell; people at a send-off
person who beheads somebody to end a seppuku; assistant; helper
life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)
① 本人の代わりの人。代理人。名代。
guarantor
heavenly being; celestial being; celestial nymph; celestial maiden
attorney; lawyer
a kidnapper; an abductor
holder of a title deed; stock holder; lease holder
originator; promoter
guarantor; acceptor (e.g. promissory note); underwriter (e.g. stock issue)
lodger; tenant; roomer
child in elementary or middle school; go-between; intermediary; middleman
sender of a message
scribe; amanuensis
beast in human form
farmer; peasant
person entrusted with someone's money, belongings, land, etc.; person in charge of someone taken into custody
voter; constituent; elector; presidential elector (US); member of the Electoral College
the strength of ten
rebel; traitor
man month; man-month
(boat) pilot
(boat) pilot
heir; heiress; inheritor
man-day; person-day
arbitrator; mediator
petitioner; complainant
portion of food
seller; sales agent
repairman; repairer
earth and heaven; human and heavenly beings
accused; defendant; prisoner at the bar
guard; security (officer); guardsman
① 周旋する人。当事者同士の間に立ち、売買や雇用の話がまとまるよう取り計らう人。
appellant
street vendor; stallholder; stallkeeper
lodger; boarder; paying guest
hirer; lessee; leaseholder
heinous criminal; vicious criminal
personal appearance; looks
① 人的証拠の略。人間の供述もしくは身体を証拠の資料とするもの。
addressee
remitter; writer of cheque; writer of check
scaffold constructor; steeplejack
so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world
butcher; slaughterhouse worker
postman; mailman; mail carrier
administrator of an estate
agent; person in charge
breadwinner; hard worker
complainant; plaintiff
litigant; plaintiff; suitor
speaker at a public hearing
petitioner; person who prays; beggar-priest
caretaker; claimer; guarantor
custodian; trustee
assistant; aide; curator
physiognomist
deliveryman; delivery person
pious woman; female believer
printer (person)
tax collector
man-hour
middleman; mediator; go-between
money exchanger
antiques dealer
transferor; assignor
some are wise and some are otherwise; (lit.) one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind
assistant in a duel (e.g. a cockfight, poetry contest, etc.) (Heian period); older male in an homosexual relationship
auditor; inspector
some are wise and some are otherwise; (lit.) one thousand blind; one thousand with their eyes open
signatory
master contractor
master contractor; prime contactor; general contractor
petitioner; complainant
one who offers prayer in place of another
consignee
adjustor; liquidator
petitioner
seedling peddler; nurseryman
limited guardian
auxiliary intervenor (in a lawsuit)
liquidator (e.g. of a corporation)
interpreter
internal auditor
So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own
sender; remitter; consignor
low-status samurai without land; low-status farmer without land
accessory after the fact
accessory before the fact
itinerant (esp. itinerant gambler); drifter; nomad; rover
go-between; intermediate; agent (e.g. for employing servants)
agent; intermediary
Yama's pole (with a human head on the top)
kanji "legs radical" (radical 10)
flagrant offender
being besieged by suitors; to be popular; (lit.) eight suitors for one daughter
rugby sevens; seven-a-side rugby
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
guard; protector
prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system)
brute; violent criminal; savage
Examples (181 in total)
Do you have a table for five?
Thousands of people lost their jobs.
One out of ten persons is nearsighted.