恋人
こいびと · koibito · JLPT N3 · noun
lover
💑 恋 love + 人 person = love-person, your sweetheart
恋 (koi) means romantic love and 人 (hito) means person; hito softens to bito when it follows another word. Japanese often puns on 恋 koi (love) and 鯉 koi (carp), so koi carp are a common way to remember love.
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.