個人

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Chinese

(a measure word); individual man; person; people
trad. (個人) 個 人
simp. (个人) 个 人

Pronunciation

Note: go6 rêng5 - Jieyang.
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Particularly: “gai nang (個儂) 1:38”

Adjective

個人

  1. (attributive) personal
    個人數據／个人数据  ―  gèrén shùjù  ―  personal data
    請保管好個人物品。 [MSC, trad.]
    请保管好个人物品。 [MSC, simp.]
    Qǐng bǎoguǎn hǎo gèrén wùpǐn.
    Please do not leave your personal belongings unattended.
    她總是有意無意問起他個人感情經歷。 [MSC, trad.]
    她总是有意无意问起他个人感情经历。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā zǒngshì yǒuyìwúyì wèn qǐ tā gèrén gǎnqíng jīnglì.
    She often asks him about his past relationships in subtle ways.

Derived terms

Noun

個人

  1. individual (person)

Pronoun

個人

  1. I; me; my; oneself; myself

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (個人):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
個 人
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Grade: 5 		じん
Grade: 1
tōon kan'on
 個人 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Short for 一(いっ)個(こ)人(じん) (ikkojin) or 各(かく)個(こ)人(じん) (kakukojin), from 一(いっ)個(こ)の人(ひと) (ikko no hito), a calque of English individual.[1][2]

Listed in the 1912 work 英独仏和哲学字彙 (Ei-Doku-Futsu-Wa Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of English, German, and French Philosophical Terms”) as a translation of English individual.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

個(こ)人(じん) • (kojin) ←こじん (kozin)?

  1. individual

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ “個人”, in デジタル大辞泉‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
個人

Noun

個人 • (gaein) (hangeul 개인)

  1. hanja form? of 개인 (“individual”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
個人

Adjective

個人

  1. chữ Hán form of cá nhân (“individual, personal”).

Noun

個人

  1. chữ Hán form of cá nhân (“individual”).
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