原人

Chinese
 
former; original; primary
former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
 man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(原人)		 原 人

Pronunciation

Noun

原人

  1. primitive man
  2. honest person

Synonyms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
原 人
げん
Grade: 2		 じん
Grade: 1
kan’on

Etymology

The original meaning was “modest and honest person”.[1]

Repurposed in the 1881 work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a translation of English primitive man.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) げんじん [gèńjíń] (Heiban – [0])[4][1]
  • IPA(key): [ɡẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]

Noun

原(げん)人(じん) • (genjin) ←げんじん (genzin)?

  1. primitive man

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. “原人”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  3. Inoue, Tetsujirō (1881) 哲学字彙 [Dictionary of Philosophy]‎, University of Tokyo, page 71
  4. Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
原人

Noun

原人 • (wonin) (hangeul 원인)

  1. Hanja form? of 원인.
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