Person

"Person" in Japanese

hito

(individual)

人物

jinbutsu

(individual)

人称

ninshō

(grammar: linguistic category)

人間

ningen

(specifically a human being — see also human, human being, man)

個人

kojin

(the physical body seen as distinct from the mind)

kata

(individual)

法人

hōjin

(any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts)

mono

(individual)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.