Radical 9 or radical man () meaning "person" is a Kangxi radical. Of the 214 radicals, Radical 9 is one of 23 which are composed of 2 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into .
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 794 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 12th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, and (formerly Radical 11), are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
As an independent sinogram 人 is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyà Âiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.