日本人

Kanji breakdown

• 日 (Rì) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of the sun.

• 本 (běn) · 5 strokes

  Addition of a horizontal line toward the bottom of 木 (tree) to represent the roots of the tree.

• 人 (rén) · 2 strokes

  Pictograph of the side view of a standing person.

Example sentences

1. 日本人ですか。 — Are you a Japanese citizen?
2. トムは日本人です。 — Tom is Japanese.
3. 日本人ぽくないね。 — You don't look Japanese.
4. 日本人は一日三食です。 — Japanese people take three meals a day.
5. 日本人はアジア人です。 — Japanese are Asians.

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