Hangul syllable 인

As a suffix, -인 means “person.” It appears in 한국인 (“Korean person”), 직장인 (“office worker”), and 외국인 (“foreigner”); the whole word identifies the person. -인 corresponds to 人, the Chinese character for “person.”

Hangul was devised to write Korean more directly than Chinese-character writing or mixed methods such as idu, which adapted Chinese characters to represent Korean. The script was completed in 1443 and officially promulgated in 1446. Those dates describe Hangul, not the first recorded use of this syllable.

Unicode can represent 인 as one syllable or as its component Hangul letters (jamo). A compatible Korean renderer joins those letters into one visible syllable block.