个人/個人 gèrén — individual, oneself (as opposed to the group); personal

Meanings

1. 1

   individual, oneself (as opposed to the group); personal

   个, the everyday classifier for a single thing, fixed onto 人 — one person counted apart from the crowd. It opens a sentence to mark an opinion as only the speaker’s own, 个人觉得, and sits before a noun to mean "personal", 个人信息, one’s own information, not the office’s.

   noun

Character breakdown

• 人

  rén (second tone, rising)

  person, human being; people

  2 strokesRadical 人

Example sentences

• 个人觉得，这个办法不错。/個人覺得，這個辦法不錯。Gèrén (fourth tone, falling) juéde, (second tone, rising) zhège (fourth tone, falling) bànfǎ (fourth tone, falling) búcuò. (second tone, rising)···

  Personally, I think this method is good.

• 这件事情跟他个人没有关系。/這件事情跟他個人沒有關係。Zhè (fourth tone, falling) jiàn (fourth tone, falling) shìqing (fourth tone, falling) gēn (first tone, high and level) tā (first tone, high and level) gèrén (fourth tone, falling) méiyǒu (second tone, rising) guānxi. (first tone, high and level)···

  This matter has nothing to do with him personally.

Similar words

Words containing 人

• 人rén (second tone, rising)person, people
• 有人yǒu (third tone, dipping) rén (second tone, rising)someone
• 人们/人們rén (second tone, rising) men (neutral tone)people
• 别人/別人biérén (second tone, rising)other people, others; somebody else
• 女人nǚrén (third tone, dipping)woman, adult female
• 人员/人員rén (second tone, rising) yuán (second tone, rising)staff
• 男人nánrén (second tone, rising)man, adult male
• 人生rén (second tone, rising) shēng (first tone, high and level)life (one's time on earth)
• 人民rén (second tone, rising) mín (second tone, rising)the people
• 人类/人類rén (second tone, rising) lèi (fourth tone, falling)humanity
• 病人bìng (fourth tone, falling) rén (second tone, rising)sick person
• 人物rén (second tone, rising) wù (fourth tone, falling)person
• 家人jiā (first tone, high and level) rén (second tone, rising)family member
• 敌人/敵人dí (second tone, rising) rén (second tone, rising)enemy
• 人家rén (second tone, rising) jia (neutral tone)other people
• 人士rén (second tone, rising) shì (fourth tone, falling)person
• 客人kèrén (fourth tone, falling)guest, visitor; customer