無む人じん

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', noun

unmanned; uninhabited; deserted; unattended

Describes a place, vehicle, or machine with no people present or operating it. Common in compounds like 無人島 (uninhabited island) and 無人駅 (unstaffed station).

Antonyms: 有人

• その島しまは無む人じんだ。

  That island is uninhabited.

• 無む人じん駅えきで電でん車しゃを待まった。

  I waited for the train at an unstaffed station.

noun, na-adjective

shorthanded; lack of help

Only with reading ぶにん / むにん

Rare sense meaning a shortage of people to do work. Restricted to readings ぶにん and むにん, but even those are uncommon; 人手不足 is the normal modern expression.

• 今日きょうは店みせが無ぶ人にんで、一人ひとりで全ぜん部ぶやらなければならなかった。

  The shop was shorthanded today, so I had to do everything by myself.