仞 — Chinese character
仞
rèn
ancient unit of measure (about 8 feet); a fathom
- Pinyin
- rèn
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 亻 刃
- Formation
- pictophonetic; sound component 刃
- Japanese
- 仞 as a kanji
Common words with 仞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 壁立千仞 | bì lì qiān rèn | (idiom) (of a cliff, mountain etc) steep; lofty; imposing |
仞 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 2 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 12
- Analects 19.23
- Art of War 4.20
- Art of War 5.23
- Mencius 7B.34
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.