Contionary:Toki Pona/jan

Toki Pona

tok:

Glyph origin

• tok ("sitelen pona") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"): A human head and shoulders, perhaps as used as a default profile picture.
• tok ("sitelen sitelen") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"): A human upper body, including a head and torso, possibly with body hair.

Etymology

From Cantonese 人 (jan⁴, “person”).

Noun

Toki Pona/jan

1. person
   • 2025 February 28, kije Weku, “lipu Kojo en linluwi majuna”, in lipu tenpo‎^[1], number (nanpa) tenpo, page 7:

     tenpo ni la linluwi majuna li kama suli tan ni: jan mute li pilin ike tawa linluwi sin.

     Now, the old internet is becoming important because many people feel bad about the new internet.

   1. human (Homo sapiens)
   2. a being with equivalent sentience to a human, such as an alien, or that was or sometimes is a human, such as a werewolf
2. somebody, anybody

Human

Derived terms

• jan pona
• jan pali

Usage notes

While jan is the typical head noun for names of people, some speakers prefer to name themselves with other head nouns. A philosophy called "jan't" avoids using jan for anyone who does not explicitly want it. These speakers may reduce phrases like jan mute to mute, or replace jan alone with tok ("ijo") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}") or tok ("soweli") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Adjective

Toki Pona/jan

1. (relational) human, humans
2. personal

Verb

Toki Pona/jan

1. (transitive) to turn into a person or human form; to personify, to anthropomorphize
2. (transitive) to personalize

References

• Template:R:Toki Pona: The Language of Good

Further reading

• Template:Tok-interwikt