Entry
  1. Noun

    person who died for a cause

  2. guinea pig (for a new product or service); test subject; sacrificial lamb; early adopter

    Colloquialalso read じんちゅう

  3. hitobashira; ritual human sacrifice by burying a living person under or near a large-scale construction project to invoke divine protection

    Historical term

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

person

Kun
ひと-り-と
On
ジンニン
Strokes
2
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
5 of 2500
Radical
person
WaniKani
Level 1

Built from

Used in names as

ひこふみ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-2-4SKIP code
2a0.1The Kanji Dictionary
8000.0Four corner code
1262deroo
4ebaUnicode hex code
1-31-45JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
339Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
99New Nelson (John Haig)
3368New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4175Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2111Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2857Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
951Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1023Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
14Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
344Morohashi
39A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
30sakade
11Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
39henshall3
7Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2crowley
15Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.5busy_people
42Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
960Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ren2Pinyin reading
inKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
1WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pillar, post, cylinder, support

Kun
はしら
On
チュウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1119 of 2500
Radical
tree
WaniKani
Level 40

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-4-5SKIP code
4a5.12The Kanji Dictionary
4091.4Four corner code
1872deroo
67f1Unicode hex code
1-35-76JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2236Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2631New Nelson (John Haig)
896New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1109Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
603Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
797Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
268Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
286Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1385A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
854Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
826Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
14660Morohashi
345A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
598Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
608Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
278sakade
629Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
366henshall3
338Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
990Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1084Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
274Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhu4Pinyin reading
juKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
40WaniKani level