The Story of Chinese Character : 人

The orignal form of 人is a bowing man. The biggest difference among human being and other animals, is that human being is well-behaved, he knows what "should" and "shouldn't".

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• Chinese Character
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• 中文字
• 文字學
• etymology
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• hand
• 手

[choumeizai]

@kingcun510 人 is also used to describe something which is in human form or has human function, for example, robot in Chinese is 機械人. Give me something example.

[kingcun510]

@choumeizai okay, reffering back to my first question, why would something that's not human have that symbol at the end of its name?

[choumeizai]

@kingcun510 Oh...so?

[kingcun510]

@choumeizai im playing an online PC game called Dragon Ball Online (DBO)

[choumeizai]

@kingcun510 Which game are you playing? Both China and Taiwan use this character to represent human being.

[kingcun510]

@choumeizai is this character a taiwanese character? if it is, on a game i play thats in taiwan, the plant creature thingies always had this symbol at the end of it. why is that?