人物 (rénwù) — figure; personage; character (in a story or history)

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL 4 (est.) · 詞

人物 word · TOCFL 4 (est.)

人物＝人＋物

ㄖㄣˊ ㄨˋ · rénwù

noun — figure; personage; character (in a story or history)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

人person (人類的人)rén

物thing; object (事物的物)wù牛(ox, the paradigmatic countable possession) + 勿(phonetic wù) — the ox as the thing one owned and counted

人物，人類的人，事物的物。