賃

See also 赁

Translingual

simpl.		赁
trad.		賃

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 任 + semantic 貝 (“shell, money”) – a kind of payment. 任 has meaning of “duty, employment”, so connotations of “money paid for employment (hire)” or “money that one has a duty to pay (rent)”.

Han character

賃 (radical 154 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土月山金 (OGBUC), four-corner 2280₆, composition ⿱任貝)

1. rent, hire
2. hired person

Descendants

• 赁

See also

• 貨

References

• KangXi: page 1207, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36743
• Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3639, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8CC3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

賃 (simplified 赁, Yale yam6)

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Japanese

Kanji

賃 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちん (chin), じん (jin)
• Kun: やとう (yatou)

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Korean

Hanja

賃 (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune-Reischauer im, Yale im)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

賃 (simplified 赁, pinyin rèn (ren4), Wade-Giles jen⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賃 (nhẫm)