人工
じんこう · jinkou · JLPT N3 · noun
man made
🤖 人工 = person + craft: made by human hands, not nature
人 (jin) means person and 工 (kou) means craft or construction. Put together: something built by people rather than occurring naturally. It appears in 人工知能 (jinkou chinou), artificial intelligence, literally person-crafted intellect.
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.