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Chinese
Pronunciation
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Adjective
個人
- (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
- individual (person)
Pronoun
個人
- I; me; my; oneself; myself
Synonyms
- 各人 (gèrén) (dialectal)
- 本人 (běnrén)
- 本身 (běnshēn) (usually of objects and concepts)
- 本身人 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 現人/现人 (Hokkien)
- 自個/自个 (zìgě) (colloquial)
- 自家 (zìjiā) (literary or dialectal)
- 自己 (zìjǐ)
- 自我 (zìwǒ)
- 自身 (zìshēn)
Descendants
Japanese
Etymology
Short for 一個人 (ikkojin) or 各個人 (kakukojin), from 一個の人 (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
個人 • (kojin) ←こじん (kozin)?
- individual
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ “個人”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
Noun
個人 • (gaein) (hangeul 개인)
- hanja form? of 개인 (“individual”)
Vietnamese
Adjective
個人
- chữ Hán form of cá nhân (“individual, personal”).
Noun
個人
- chữ Hán form of cá nhân (“individual”).