In the Beginning...
Genesis 1:26-31 - Day 6, part 2, creation of mankind

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." NIV
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small." TEV
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Additional verses give mankind a vegetarian food supply, a mandate to increase in numbers and territory, plus authority to rule over the earth and its inhabitants. Chapter 2 amplifies the details of the creation of mankind.

There are several Chinese characters for a man or person:
(ren) (er / child, son)
A man character with arms becomes the word for big, great:
(da)

Notice that these six days of creative events were essentially instantaneous. Plants and animals were created in a mature condition, not having grown from seed or hatching from eggs or being born. Things therefore had the appearance of age without an actual prior history of development. It is as if God "set the stage" and "raised the curtain" on the action of the human drama. All history began during Creation Week and has continued in a mostly normal way since then.

Genesis 2:2-3 - Day 7

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. NIV
By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working. TEV U
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(xiu / rest)
The character for rest shows a man leaning against a tree.

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