rén

  1. rén noun a kernel; a pit
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Middle Chinese: nyin; as in the kernel or pit of a piece of fruit (ABC 'rén' 仁 bf 2, p. 765; Guoyu '仁' n 4; Kroll 2015 '仁' 2, p. 385; NCCED '仁' 4; XHZD '仁' 3, p. 631)
  2. rén adjective benevolent; humane
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (ABC 'rén' 仁 bf 1, p. 765; Guoyu '仁' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '仁' 1, p. 385; NCCED '仁')
  3. rén noun benevolence; humanity
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In particular, as a virtue in Confucianism (Yao 2000, p. 17) For example, in the Great Learning, 為人君,止於仁 'As a sovereign, he rested in benevolence.' (Legge 1885, 禮記‧大學; ABC 'rén' 仁 n, p. 765; Guoyu '仁' n 1; Kroll 2015 '仁' 2, p. 385; Unihan '仁'; XHZD '仁' 1, p. 631)
  4. rén noun a benevolent person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '仁' n 2; NCCED '仁' 3; GHC '仁' 5)
  5. rén noun kindness
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '仁' 1, p. 385)
  6. rén verb polite form of address
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '仁' v; Kroll 2015 '仁' 2a, p. 385; XHZD '仁' 2, p. 631)
  7. rén verb to pity
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '仁' v 2)
  8. rén verb a person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 人 (Guoyu '仁' n 3)
  9. rén proper noun Ren
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
    Notes: (Guoyu '仁' n 5)

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