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他人

たにん

another person, stranger

Mnemonic

Not family and not a friend, some other person in the world, and you would rather they did not have your address. A tan たん of a ninja にん you have never met: たにん.

Worth knowing

Same 他 as ほか, another. As a word it means specifically not one of yours.

Built from

other
亻 the person radical with 也 beside it: some person who isn't this one.
person
A pictograph, a figure walking, seen from the side.

Words sharing these kanji

another, somewhere else other (esp. people and abstract matters) else, in addition person person from (nationality) human being, people (human) life the person in question character, person adult people friend

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