The person radical 人

Read rén, 2 strokes. It indexes 128 distinct HSK characters.

128HSK characters

2Strokes

#9Radical number

人Glyph

Quick answer

What does the person radical (人) mean, and which characters use it?

Person (人, rén) is Kangxi radical 9, and it usually marks a character whose meaning is connected to person. 128 distinct HSK characters are filed under it, the most common being 人, 会, 体. When you meet a new character carrying 人, expect its sense to touch person and let the other component hint at the sound.

How this radical works inside a character

Most characters built on 人 follow the meaning-plus-sound pattern: 人 sits on one side to signal the person sense, and a second component supplies the approximate pronunciation. So you are rarely memorizing a whole new shape, you are recognizing person plus a part you may already read. The list below is in corpus-frequency order, so the characters you will actually meet first are at the top: learn them in this order and the rest of the person-radical family gets easier as you go.

All 128 person characters 128 characters

#	Char	Pīnyīn	Strokes	HSK 3.0	HSK 2.0
1	人	rén	2	1	1
2	会	huì	6	1	1
3	体	tǐ	7	1	2
4	作	zuò	7	1	1
5	信	xìn	9	2	3
6	以	yǐ	4	2	2
7	代	dài	5	3	4
8	传	chuán	6	3	4
9	位	wèi	7	2	3
10	任	rèn	6	3	4
11	价	jià	6	3	4
12	保	bǎo	9	3	4
13	从	cóng	4	1	2
14	假	jiǎ	11	1	4
15	便	biàn	9	2	2
16	修	xiū	9	3	4
17	件	jiàn	6	2	2
18	使	shǐ	8	2	3
19	倒	dào	10	2	5
20	伤	shāng	6	3	4
21	住	zhù	7	1	1
22	候	hòu	10	1	1
23	低	dī	7	2	3
24	停	tíng	11	2	4
25	优	yōu	6	3	4
26	例	lì	8	2	4
27	众	zhòng	6	3	4
28	像	xiàng	13	2	3
29	依	yī	8	4	5
30	今	jīn	4	1	1
31	做	zuò	11	1	1
32	值	zhí	10	3	4
33	休	xiū	6	1	2
34	何	hé	7	3	4
35	伙	huǒ	6	4	5
36	俗	sú	9	4	5
37	付	fù	5	3	5
38	似	sì	6	3	5
39	伴	bàn	7	4	5
40	促	cù	9	4	5
41	们	men	5	1	1
42	健	jiàn	10	2	3
43	供	gōng	8	4	4
44	偏	piān	11	6	6
45	介	jiè	4	1	2
46	份	fèn	6	2	4
47	借	jiè	10	2	3
48	余	yú	7	4	5
49	令	lìng	5	5	5
50	偷	tōu	11	5	5
51	偿	cháng	11	5	5
52	仰	yǎng	6	6	6
53	侵	qīn	9	6	5
54	倾	qīng	10	6	6
55	什	shén	4	1	1
56	他	tā	5	1	1
57	仅	jǐn	4	3	4
58	仿	fǎng	6	5	5
59	伸	shēn	7	5	5
60	俱	jù	10	5	5
61	偶	ǒu	11	5	4
62	但	dàn	7	2	2
63	估	gū	7	5	4
64	仪	yí	5	6	6
65	侧	cè	8	6	6
66	傲	ào	12	6	4
67	仇	chóu	4	7-9	6
68	伯	bó	7	7-9	6
69	僵	jiāng	15	7-9	6
70	仍	réng	4	3	4
71	伟	wěi	6	3	5
72	企	qǐ	6	4	5
73	倡	chàng	10	5	5
74	佛	fú	7	6	5
75	佳	jiā	8	6	6
76	债	zhài	10	6	6
77	储	chǔ	12	6	6
78	仙	xiān	5	7-9	6
79	伏	fú	6	7-9	6
80	伪	wěi	6	7-9	6
81	佩	pèi	8	7-9	5
82	俊	jùn	9	7-9	5
83	俭	jiǎn	9	7-9	6
84	催	cuī	13	7-9	5
85	你	nǐ	7	1	1
86	伞	sǎn	6	4	3
87	仔	zǐ	5	5	4
88	傻	shǎ	13	5	5
89	仓	cāng	4	6	6
90	仁	rén	4	7-9	6
91	伦	lún	6	7-9	6
92	伺	cì	7	7-9	6
93	侃	kǎn	8	7-9	·
94	侠	xiá	8	7-9	6
95	侣	lǚ	8	7-9	6
96	侦	zhēn	8	7-9	6
97	俘	fú	9	7-9	6
98	俯	fǔ	10	7-9	6
99	倔	jué	10	7-9	·
100	倦	juàn	10	7-9	6
101	僚	liáo	14	7-9	·
102	僻	pì	15	7-9	6
103	儒	rú	16	7-9	·
104	亿	yì	3	2	4
105	俩	liǎ	9	4	4
106	倍	bèi	10	4	4
107	傅	fù	12	5	4
108	伍	wǔ	6	6	6
109	傍	bàng	12	6	5
110	仆	pū	4	7-9	·
111	仗	zhàng	5	7-9	6
112	仲	zhòng	6	7-9	·
113	伊	yī	6	7-9	·
114	伐	fá	6	7-9	6
115	佐	zuǒ	7	7-9	·
116	佑	yòu	7	7-9	·
117	佣	yōng	7	7-9	5
118	侈	chǐ	8	7-9	6
119	侍	shì	8	7-9	·
120	侨	qiáo	8	7-9	6
121	侮	wǔ	9	7-9	6
122	俄	é	9	7-9	·
123	俏	qiào	9	7-9	·
124	倘	tǎng	10	7-9	6
125	倚	yǐ	10	7-9	·
126	僧	sēng	14	7-9	·
127	伶	líng	7	·	6
128	俐	lì	9	·	6

tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 neutral Order = corpus frequency, most common first · · = not in that scheme

Strokes and radical assignment come from the Unicode Han Database (Unicode 17.0.0, field kRSUnicode); the HSK levels and the frequency order are computed from the shipped HSK word lists. A small number of characters have a contested radical across dictionaries; the primary Unicode analysis is used throughout. Last verified 2026-07-24. See the full radical explorer or the characters-per-level reference.

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