人类 rénlèi▶ Con người

Stroke order

人类 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 人 — 2 strokes
• 类 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. humanity
2. human race
3. mankind

Related words

• 个人cá nhân
• 主人chủ; thạc sĩ; làm chủ
• 人事Vấn đề nhân sự
• 人口dân số
• 人员nhân sự
• 人才người tài

人类 is pronounced rénlèi and means “Con người”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 人类 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.