So, my question pertains to words that end with the character 人: 殺人、悪人、住人、etc. These vocab use either the にん or the じん reading. My problem is that I keep getting these readings mixed up, to the point that I’ve now brought one vocabulary term down from almost Enlightened back to the second layer of A…

And then you have 求人… which is じん.

民人 is jin and 両人 is not…whoops… 人口 is jin though…so yeah you are right. The other two are はんにん and りょうにん. But Vanilla’s point still stands, I think, even if he made a mistake. It is helpful to use mnemonics for the readings. Edit- @Vanilla you made an amateur mistake…HAHAHA now no one will think…

the jin readings have mnemonics associated with people not being ninjas to my understanding 人口 - no census for ninjas, so the people in the calculated population would be jin 民人 - commoners can’t be ninjas, so they must be jin 両人 - both are ninjas so reading is nin 犯人 - ninja killed so many peop…

What, how did I make a mistake. Read carefully @EveNi , if they aren’t ninjas in the mnemonic, it uses jin. 人口 (There is no census for the population of ninjas) 両人(both of those people are ninjas) 犯人(That ninja just killed 67 innocent people in cold blood. What a criminal.) 民人(Common people arent…

OH shoot. Did not catch the negatives. So sentences with negatives are ones without nin…fair enough… you still may be leebo…

[image] TamanegiNoKame: OH shoot. Did not catch the negatives. So sentences with negatives are ones without nin…fair enough… you still may be leebo… Wowwwww DiD yOu EvEn ReAd My PoSt. Also how am I leebo lol. I’ll take it thats a good thing, but I’ve definitely made mistakes here on the foru…

Yes this is common “advice” but it’s still wrong. Unless people are just born as 才人. It’s a bit easier to look at the type of words like place + suffix is じん etc

For me, all “nin” are ninjas and all “jin” are people wearing jeans. I think it came up in some mnemonic and i like those the most.

What I do is mentally associate じん with something masculine andにん with something feminine purely as a mnemonic. Like for 犯人 I imagine a female bank robber or something, 殺人 as a male murderer (since the majority are). 両人 as female twins etc

It’s only “wrong” in the sense that it has exceptions just like everything else. From what I’ve seen it’s right a large enough percentage of the time to be useful. See follow up post below.

Remembering the Reading of 人

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TheRealGojoSatoru January 21, 2018, 1:22am 32

Hope this helps, it’s a Japanese resource with some useful techniques to know when to use which 人：じん vs にん：Japanese Resource

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Remembering the Reading of 人

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