法人

Chinese

		law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (法人)		法	人

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǎrén

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˇ ㄖㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ jan⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hah⁶ zing²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoat-jîn / hoat-lîn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǎrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄖㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǎrén
  - Wade–Giles: fa³-jên²
  - Yale: fǎ-rén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faaren
  - Palladius: фажэнь (fažɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: faat³ jan⁴
  - Yale: faat yàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ jan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: fad³ yen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ jɐn²¹/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    法人
    發人 / 发人
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hah⁶ zing² [Phonetic: hah⁷ zing²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hah-cíng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ t͡siŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hah⁶ zing² [Phonetic: hah⁷ zing²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haʔ²⁻⁴ t͡siŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-jîn
  - Tâi-lô: huat-jîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoatjiin
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ zin²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²⁻⁵ d͡zin¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-lîn
  - Tâi-lô: huat-lîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoatliin
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ lin²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/

Noun

法人

(law) corporate person; legal entity; legal person; juridical person

Antonyms

自然人 (zìránrén)

Derived terms

法團 / 法团 (fǎtuán)
財團法人 / 财团法人

Japanese

Kanji in this term
法	人
ほう Grade: 4	じん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ほーじん [hòójíń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ho̞ːʑĩɴ]

Noun

法(ほう)人(じん) • (hōjin)

A legal person. Corporations formed for business purposes are usually referred to specifically as 会社 (かいしゃ, kaisha) or "companies." 法人 refers to all entities with legal personality.

Derived terms

社団法人
財団法人
学校法人
宗教法人
中間法人
NPO法人
法人格
法人税

References

^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
法	人

Noun

法人 • (beobin) (hangeul 법인)

hanja form^? of 법인 (“corporate person; legal entity; legal person”)