Chinese

Noun

人口

1. population
2. number of people in a family
3. mouths to feed
4. people (in general contexts)

Usage notes

In Chinese, 人口 is used to describe a population of people. To describe a population of species, the term 種群／种群 (zhǒngqún) is used instead.

Derived terms

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) じんこう [jìńkóó] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑĩŋko̞ː]

Noun

人口 ‎(hiragana じんこう, romaji jinkō)

1. population
   • 1947, 宮本百合子, 道標:

     しかし最近 (さいきん)の数年間 (すうねんかん)にフランスの農業 (のうぎょう)人口 (じんこう)は減 (へ)りつづけているということだった。

     Shikashi saikin no sūnenkan ni furansu no nōgyō jinkō wa heritsuzukete iru to iu koto datta.

     In recent years, however, the population of French farmers has continued to decrease.

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Noun

人口 • ‎(in-gu) ‎(hangeul 인구)

1. Hanja form^? of 인구, “population”.