一いち人じん物ぶつ

noun

person of importance; person to be reckoned with; somebody

Used of a person with recognized ability, influence, or presence. Often has a written or somewhat formal feel, similar to saying someone is not just an ordinary person.

• 彼かれは地じ元もと政せい界かいの一いち人じん物ぶつだ。

  He is a person of importance in local politics.

• 若わかい頃ころから、彼かの女じょは将しょう来らい一いち人じん物ぶつになると言いわれていた。

  Ever since she was young, people said she would become somebody someday.

noun

one person; one figure; one character

A written or analytical use for one individual personage or one character in a work. It is not the normal everyday way to count people; use 一人 for simple counting.

• 評ひょう論ろんでは、語かたり手てを作さく品ひん中ちゅうの一いち人じん物ぶつとして扱あつかうことがある。

  In criticism, the narrator is sometimes treated as one character within the work.

• 彼かれもまた、維い新しん期きを生いきた一いち人じん物ぶつである。

  He too was one figure who lived through the Restoration period.