食人

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	man; person; people
trad. (食人)		食	人
simp. #(食人)		食	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shírén

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shírén
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhrén
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-jên²
    • Yale: shŕ-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrren
    • Palladius: шижэнь (šižɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ jan⁴
    • Yale: sihk yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² jɐn²¹/

Verb

食人

1. to eat people
2. (figurative) to oppress the people

Derived terms

• 食人者 (shírénzhě)

Adjective

食人

1. man-eating

Japanese

Kanji in this term
食	人
しょく Grade: 2	じん Grade: 1
kan'on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞kɯ̟ʑĩɴ]

Noun

食(しょく)人(じん) • (shokujin) 

1. human cannibalism; anthropophagy

   Synonym: カニバリズム (kanibarizumu)

References

• “食人”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “食人” in Weblio Dictionary.