人
JLPT HSK 1

rén

It shows a standing person with spread legs. (As a radical it looks like this: 亻)

	个
JLPT HSK 1

gè
Top: person 人, below: one 丨
A person as a "one" is an: individual.

	会
JLPT HSK 1

huì, kuài
Top: person 人, below: to say, cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds) - [厶 = nose in side view]
When persons are speaking 云 together as "two noses" they meet and assemble.

	认
JLPT HSK 1

rèn
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: person 人
By my words the person recognized me.

	今
JLPT HSK 1

jīn
Top: cover , bottom: corner フ
Put the cover into the corner! Now!

	坐
JLPT HSK 1

zuò
Two people 人 on the earth/ground 土
Two people on the ground: they are sitting.

	喝
JLPT HSK 1

hē, hè
Left: mouth 口, right: interrogation 曷 (= The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation)
His mouth wants (when the sun is over the wrapped person 人) something: to drink.

	茶
JLPT HSK 1

chá
From top: plant 艹, person 人 and a tree 木
The plant (the leafs), which are plucked by a person from a tree, is tea.

	从
JLPT HSK 2

cōng, cóng, zòng
Two persons 人
Two persons in a relationship where one follows and obeys. (Or: The one person follows the other.)

	以
JLPT HSK 2

yǐ
From left: antique scratch plow レ, plow furrow 丶, person 人
The scratch plow has cut a plow furrow, which the person uses.

	介
JLPT HSK 2

jiè
Top: person 人, below: armor 八
A person in the shell of the armor is: in between.

	休
JLPT HSK 2

xiū
Left: person 亻or 人, right: tree 木
The person goes to a tree to have a rest.

	两
JLPT HSK 2

liǎng
Shows: inside 内 with one 一 further person 人, who is inside. (cf. third 丙)
Two connected 一 persons 人人 are inside 冂, thus both

	健
JLPT HSK 3

jiàn
Left: person 亻, right: building/construction 建 (You have a brush 聿 in your hand and need to move 廴 for building)
A person who builds must be healthy and robust.

	借
JLPT HSK 3

jiè
Left: person 亻, right: old days 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of old times.)
(I did not forget:) This person has in the old days: borrowed sth.

	史
JLPT HSK 3

shǐ
Mouth 口 and person 人 with a wide step (cf. unit of length 丈)
With the mouth, the person who made wide steps, tells his history.

	伞
JLPT HSK 3

sǎn

Image of an umbrella

	份
JLPT HSK 4

fèn
Left: person 人, right: to divide, part 分 (... with a sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces)
The persons get each a part as their share.

	队
JLPT HSK 4

duì
Left: hill 阝 (The "hill"-radical 阝, stands also for border 际, limit 限 or obstruction 阻, such that persons form here the border troops.), right: person 人
On the hill the persons are posted as troops.

	付
JLPT HSK 4

fù
Left: person 亻/人, right: skillful hand 寸
A person with a skillful hand, who hands over sth. or pays.

	众
JLPT HSK 4

zhòng
Shows three times the sign for person 人
Three persons stand for many people.

	内
JLPT HSK 4

nèi
Outside: enclosure 冂, inside: person 人
The enclosure keeps the person inside.

	低
JLPT HSK 4

dī
Left: person 人, right: floor, foundation 氐 (The family 氏 sits down 一 on the floor.)
The person on the floor is in a low position.

	全
JLPT HSK 4

quán
Top: person 人, bottom: king 王
The person of the king owns all and wholely.

	倒
JLPT HSK 4

dǎo, dào
From left: person 亻, get to/reach 到 (至 arrow falling back to earth 土), knife 刂
The person reaches the knife and falls into it.

	偶
JLPT HSK 4

ǒu
Left: person 人, right: scorpion 禺 (image of a scorpion: combination of a carapace 田, insect 虫 and long legs 冂)
(At first they met 遇 with movements 辶) And then the person and the scorpion became accidentially a pair.

	倍
JLPT HSK 4

bèi
Left: person 人, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit)
Persons often spit many-fold.

	傲
JLPT HSK 4

ào
Left: person 人, center top: abundance 丰 (= strongly growing plant with many branches 三), rest: release/let go 放 (In his side 方 he was striked 攵, until he released)
A person who is in abundance and lets things go, is: proud and arrogant.

	传
JLPT HSK 4

chuán, zhuàn
Left: person 人, right: focussed 专/專 (The skier 专 in the downhill-squat with poles 二 in the hands is focussed)
A person has to be focussed when he wants to pass on sth.

	伴
JLPT HSK 5

bàn
Left: person 人, right: half 半 (A knife 丨 cuts a birthday cake 二 with candles 丷 in half.)
A person is only half without a partner.

	俗
JLPT HSK 5

sú
Left: person 人, right: valley 谷 (Shows a valley that opens into a plain 口.)
People in the valleys have commonly coarse customs.

	余
JLPT HSK 5

yú
Top: a heap , bottom: Variant of show 示 (= This shows an altar 丁, with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 dropping down.)
A heap on the altar shows that something is in excess.

	令
JLPT HSK 5

lìng
Top: lid , below: bent person 卩
A lid on the bent person: That's the order.

	企
JLPT HSK 5

qǐ
Top: person 人, below: stop 止 (imprint of a right foot that stops at a line 一 )
(Better to prepare at ease/calmness:) The person should stop for planning the project.

	俊
JLPT HSK 5

jùn
Left: person 人, right: dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, cross-legged 夂)
A person with such a nose, legs and contorted feet must be smart.

	依
JLPT HSK 5

yī
Left: Person 人, right: clothes 衣
(Dress for success:) How the person dresses, it is depending on.

	催
JLPT HSK 5

cuī
Left: person 人, right: high mountain 崔 (=mountain 山 only for birds 隹)
Person want to the high mountains, where only birds are: Thereto, they are urged.

	促
JLPT HSK 5

cù
Left: person 人, right: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止)
A person uses the foot to urge (himself).

	闪
JLPT HSK 5

shǎn
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: person 人
When the person (jumped) through the gate, it happened quickly like a flash, and he sprained.

	傍
JLPT HSK 5

bàng
Left: person 人, right: one side, beside 旁 ([The servants] are in one direction 方 (side) of the emperor 帝 [modified]: at his side.)
The person approaching the emperor's side is near to him.

	伸
JLPT HSK 5

shēn
Left: person 人, right: say/tell 申 (here: two hands E 彐 pulling at sth. |
The persons with the hands pull to stretch it.

	仙
JLPT HSK 6

xiān
Left: person 人, right: mountain 山
A person like a mountain, that is: the immortal god!

	仓
JLPT HSK 6

cāng
Left: person 人, right: slumped person 㔾 (here: roll of fabric)
Under the pointed roof, a roll of cloth is in the warehouse.

	儒
JLPT HSK 6

rú
Left: person 人, right: require, need 需 (Rain[water] 雨 on the beard 而 is needed [for care])
People need confucianism. Or: The person in the rain with the (long) beard, is: Confucius.

	侵
JLPT HSK 6

qīn
Left: person 人, right: variant of broom 帚 (hand holding a broom)[cf. to return 归, which was traditionally: 帰]
A person came to you (= where your broom is) and: invaded.

	倘
JLPT HSK 6

tǎng
Left: person 人, right: esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.)
This person should be respected, if ....

	偏
JLPT HSK 6

piān
Left: person 人, right: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
(As if they had their fixed opinion on a sign around their neck:) People who are flat like a door plate are biased and one-sided.

	仰
JLPT HSK 6

yǎng
Left: person 人, right: 卬 ([at the left] an odd person 人 bowing down 卩 deeply [at the right])
The person is odd but bows down deeply, because he: admires.

	伏
JLPT HSK 6

fú
Left: person 人, right: dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶)
A person is like a dog, when he subdues.

	侮
JLPT HSK 6

wǔ
Left: person 人, right: each/often 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母 [母 = breast-feeding woman 女 with emphasized bosom : ])
A person, everbody wants to insult.

	侯
JLPT no HSK

hóu
Left: person 人, right: 矦 (var. of bent person ⺈ and arrow 矢)
The person to whom another person with an arrow bows, is: a marquis.

	俺
JLPT no HSK

ǎn
Left: Person 人, right: suddenly 奄 (the big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning rod 乚]
(I boast to be full of energy:) The person with big electricity, that is me!

	仲
JLPT no HSK

zhòng
Left: person 人, right: middle/center 中
The person in the middle is (by age) the second (of the brothers).

	僚
JLPT no HSK

liáo
Left: person 人, right: 尞 (big 大, out of 丷, day 日, small 小)
Someone who takes care of the big (things) as well as every day of the small is a bureaucrat.

	仕
JLPT no HSK

shì
Left: person 人, right: scholar 士
A person must be a scholar to become a civil servant.

	庚
JLPT no HSK

gēng
Left: building 广, right: hand , person 人
In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age.

	佟
JLPT no HSK

tóng
Left: person 人, right: winter 冬 (With an upturned foot 夂 on the ice 冫- it's winter.)
This person's name is: winter, Mr. Tong.

	伎
JLPT no HSK

jì
Left: person 人, right: twig 支 (twig 十 and hand 又)
The person (balancing) a twig in the hand shows a skillful trick.

	囚
JLPT no HSK

qiú
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: person 人
The person inside the enclosure is a prisoner.

	曳
JLPT no HSK

yè
(Due to the weight, the person 人 is deformed)
A person 人 with a heavy load 日 on the shoulders who is dragging or pulling.

	仑
JLPT no HSK

lún
Top: person 人, bottom: sitting person 匕
When a person turns into a sitting person, he is well arranged.

	噗
JLPT no HSK

pū
Left: mouth 口, right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket)
The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when a tray 一 with things || is loaded onto a sheep 羊 that it goes to its knees 八 is a: heavy breath.

	僧
JLPT no HSK

sēng
Left: person 人, right: formerly 曾 (At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly)
The person, who refers to the "formerly" is a monk.

	戍
JLPT no HSK

shù
Mainly: halberd 戈, and at the left a person 人 (= ノ & 一) [cf. military 戎 = ten 十 halberds 戈]
The persons with the halberds form the garrison.

	赓
JLPT no HSK

gēng
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems 庚 (In the building 广 a hand grasps a person 人 with the question of: his age), bottom: money 贝/貝
If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue)

	璞
JLPT no HSK

pú
Left: king, jade 王, right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket)
If the jade appears like in a 'thicket', it is still an: unpolished gemstone.

	俸
JLPT no HSK

fèng
Left: person 人, right: to offer (to superior) 奉 (Three 三 persons 人 stretch out hand 扌,手 respectfully for offering)
A person gives to three persons with open hands their: salary.

	蓓
JLPT no HSK

bèi
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: (two, three ..)-fold 倍 (The persons 人 spit 咅 many-fold.)
The plant multiplies with the bud.