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  • "All men," for instance, would involve merely the duplication of the character _jen_: — 人人爱他 _jen jen ai t'a_.

    China and the Chinese Herbert Allen Giles 1890

  • The studiers of this new science have come up with a formula to determine the one's sense of a meaningful life through what they call a jen ratio.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • The studiers of this new science have come up with a formula to determine the one's sense of a meaningful life through what they call a jen ratio.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • The studiers of this new science have come up with a formula to determine the one's sense of a meaningful life through what they call a jen ratio.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • Wed 10/14/09 7: 25 AM first! lame! good ep. jen is a bitch but i love. annie has the best storylines this season. adrianna deserved it. dixon’s storyline is stupid

    '90210' recap: Zipcode for splitsville | EW.com 2009

  • The last part of the book combines these two spheres of thought into a cohesive whole using what Keltner terms the jen ratio.

    “Born to Be Good” by Dacher Keltner (Norton, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Often such passages will contrast the goal of the Noble Person with that of the way people too often act in the world, the latter captured in the term hsiao jen, petty person.

    Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: 'Tis The Season -- With Confucius Ph.D. Rodney L. Taylor 2011

  • Often such passages will contrast the goal of the Noble Person with that of the way people too often act in the world, the latter captured in the term hsiao jen, petty person.

    Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: 'Tis The Season -- With Confucius Ph.D. Rodney L. Taylor 2011

  • He used the term tso jen—‘to be man’—defining all the pride and dignity inherent in the word.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • The adverb "jen", behold, here, there, is used to point out or call attention to something:

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

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