食人

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	man; person; people
trad. (食人)		食	人
simp. ^#(食人)		食	人

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shírén

(Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄖㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ jan⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shírén
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄖㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shíhrén
  - Wade–Giles: shih²-jên²
  - Yale: shŕ-rén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrren
  - Palladius: шижэнь (šižɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sik⁶ jan⁴
  - Yale: sihk yàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ jan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ yen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² jɐn²¹/

Verb

食人

to eat people
(figurative) to oppress the people

Derived terms

食人者 (shírénzhě)

Adjective

食人

man-eating

Japanese

Kanji in this term
食	人
しょく Grade: 2	じん Grade: 1
kan'on

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɕo̞kɯ̟ʑĩɴ]

Noun

食(しょく)人(じん) • (shokujin)

human cannibalism; anthropophagy
Synonym: カニバリズム (kanibarizumu)

References

“食人”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
“食人” in Weblio Dictionary.