友人
ゆうじん · yuujin · JLPT N3 · noun
friend
🤝 友人 = friend + person: a friend, said the formal way
友 (yuu) means friend and 人 (jin) means person, so the word is literally 'friend-person'. It is more formal than 友達 (tomodachi). Hook: 'you, Jin, my honoured friend' covers both sounds, yuu + jin.
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.