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人物

じんぶつ

person, figure, character (in a story), personality

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Examples

  1. 彼は歴史に残る人物です。

    かれはれきしにのこるじんぶつです。

    He is a figure who will go down in history.

  2. あの人はどんな人物か教えて下さい。

    あのひとはどんなじんぶつかおしえてください。

    Please tell me what sort of person he is.

  3. この小説には面白い人物がたくさん出てきます。

    このしょうせつにはおもしろいじんぶつがたくさんでてきます。

    A lot of interesting characters appear in this novel.

Common patterns

登場人物
the characters (in a story)
重要人物
an important figure
人物を見る
to size someone up

Memory tip

人物 views a person from the outside — as a figure, a type, a character in a story — so it is never a polite way to refer to the person you are talking to. 登場人物 is the everyday word for cast of characters.

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