Hanja Analyzer

仞

仞 — in

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading: 길 인
Romanization: in
English: ancient unit of measure (8 feet); 'fathom'
Mandarin: rèn
Japanese on'yomi: ジン
Japanese kun'yomi: はか.る
Japanese usage: Not on either list
Strokes: 5
Variant forms: 仭
Radical: 人 (9, 3 residual)
Unicode: U+4EDE

Japanese words with 仞

仞じん ren (ancient Chinese measure of height, depth, etc.; between 1-3 meters)
九仞きゅうじん great height
壁立千仞へきりつせんじん precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth
九仞の功を一簣に虧くきゅうじんのこうをいっきにかく to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle

Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Other hanja read “인”

Other hanja with radical 人