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人物

rén wù 2–4

person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting)

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
人 · 物
Syllables
2
rén wù
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,410

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 人rén2 strokesHSK 1man; people; mankind; someone else
  • 物wù8 strokesHSK 2thing, substance, creature

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 人物. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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