件

Represent individual countable things, evolving into the modern meaning of “item, matter, or case.”

Ideogrammatic compound:

人 (인, “person”) – indicates something related to humans or individual units;

牛 (우, “cow”) – symbolizes livestock or countable animals.

Together, the character originally referred to a countable head of cattle (one cow, two cows, etc.), which extended to mean countable items or cases in general.

It appears in common compounds like 物件 (object), 事件 (incident), and 條件 (condition).