巨人

jùrén · HSK 7

giant

🗿 巨 (huge) + 人 (person) = a huge person, a giant or Titan

巨 carries the sense of huge or enormous; pair it with 人 (person) and you get jùrén, a giant or colossus. Same 人 building block shows up in 人 = person across many words.

人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.

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