にんげん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of にんげん – see the following entry.
【人間】
[noun] [from 1120] human, person, human being
[noun] [date uncertain] personality, character
[noun] [from 984? from 756?] (Buddhism) literally meaning: "human society", referring to one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology (more commonly referred to with the jinkan reading)
(This term, にんげん (ningen), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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