東人

Chinese

		east	man; person; people
trad. (東人)		東	人
simp. (东人)		东	人

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	東	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dōng	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ tuwng ›	‹ nyin ›
Old Chinese	/tˁoŋ/ (< tˁoŋʔ ?)	/*ni[ŋ]/
English	east	(other) person
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

東人

(literary, literally) someone from the east; easterner
- 東人之子，職勞不來。西人之子，粲粲衣服。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  东人之子，职劳不来。西人之子，粲粲衣服。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Dōngrén zhī zǐ, zhí láo bùlái. Xīrén zhī zǐ, càncàn yīfú. [Pinyin]
  The sons of the easterners are only summoned [to service] without encouragement, while the sons of the westerners shine in splendid dresses.
(archaic) landlord; master; boss
(archaic) host (person who receives or entertains other people as guests)
(Korean Classical Chinese) Korean
- 我東人遊於 ^中國者，觀其規模之大，儀度之盛，宮室之壯麗 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
  From: 1858, 金直淵, 《聞見雜識》, 《燕槎日錄》
  a dong-in yu eo Jungguk ja, gwan gi gyumo ji dae, uido ji seong, gungsil ji jangnyeo [Sino-Korean]
  As for us Koreans who have visited China, we have seen the greatness of its scale, the flourishing of its ceremonial, the magnificence of its palaces.

東人

(historical) a political faction in the Korean court which emerged in a dispute over the appropriate powers of royal in-laws in the 1570s, opposing the 西人 (xīrén, “Westerner”) faction; around 1589, they split into the 北人 (běirén, “Northerner”) and 南人 (nánrén, “Southerner”) factions