賃

See also: 赁, and 貨

Translingual

Han character

賃 (Kangxi 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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		賃
simp.		赁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
紝	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
鵀	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
拰	*nɯmʔ
賃	*nɯms
任	*njɯm, *njɯms
壬	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
恁	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
銋	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
荏	*njɯmʔ
餁	*njɯmʔ
栠	*njɯmʔ
袵	*njɯmʔ
飪	*njɯmʔ
妊	*njɯms
衽	*njɯms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nɯms) : phonetic 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + 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)”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): līm / jīm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): rim⁶ / rim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁶
    • Yale: yahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līm
    • Tâi-lô: līm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lim²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lim⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīm
    • Tâi-lô: jīm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jim
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: rim⁶ / rim²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jĭm / jím
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zim³⁵/, /d͡zim⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: nrimH

Rime
Character	賃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	乃禁切
Baxter	nrimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/niemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjimH/
Li Rong	/njəmH/
Wang Li	/nĭĕmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ni̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nam6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	賃
Reading #	1/1
No.	10807
Phonetic component	壬
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賃
Old Chinese	/*nɯms/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 賃

1. rent, wage

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Japanese

Kanji

賃

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. wage, rent, charge

Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kan’yō-on: ちん (chin, Jōyō)
• Kun: やとう (yatou, 賃う)

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Korean

Hanja

賃 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im, Yale im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 賃 (nhẫm)

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