任

See also: 仟 and 件

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 壬 – a person doing their duty.

Han character

任 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人竹土 (OHG), four-corner 2221₄, composition ⿰亻壬)

1. trust to, rely on, appoint
2. to bear, duty, office
3. allow
4. a Chinese surname

Derived characters

• 賃 (赁)

References

• KangXi: page 94, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 416
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 122, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4EFB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

任 (Jyutping jam6, Yale yam6)

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Japanese

Kanji

任

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: にん (nin), にむ (nimu), じん (jin), じむ (jimu)
• Kun: まかせる (makaseru), になう (ninau), たえる (taeru)

Compounds

責任 (せきにん, sekinin) 委任 (いにん, inin) 解任 (かいにん, kainin)

無責任 (むせきにん, musekinin) 専任 (せんにん, sennin) 信任 (しんにん, shinnin)

任命 (にんめい, ninmei) 任務 (にんむ, ninmu)

Noun

任 (hiragana にん, romaji nin)

1. duty, responsibility, obligation

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Korean

Hanja

任 (im) (hangeul 임, revised yim, McCune-Reischauer im)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

任 (Pinyin rèn (ren4), Wade-Giles jen⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

任 (*njim)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

任 (jîm (jim5), jīm (jim7))

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Vietnamese

Han character

任 (nhậm, nhẩm, nhầm, nhiệm, nhâm, nhăm, nhặm, vững)

References

• Nom Foundation