The Confucian core virtue. Quiet, deep, and only four strokes.

What a Japanese person actually thinks
Understated and respected. The construction (a person, and two — i.e. how one person treats another) is well known and people find it elegant.

Meaning

Literally: person + two
Actually: Benevolence — humaneness toward others. The central virtue in Confucian ethics and the first of the bushidō set alongside 義.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Real character, real tradition. Also a common element in men's names.

Coolness●●●●●

Four strokes carrying two and a half thousand years of philosophy. Ages perfectly on skin because there's nothing to blur.

Watch out

lowCommon in given names (Jin, Hitoshi). Some readers will see a name.

On skin

仁

Orientation: either

Brush. With four strokes, the stroke quality is the entire piece.