任 U+4EFB, 任 ← 仺[U+4EFA] CJK Unified Ideographs 仼 →[U+4EFC] Stroke order
任 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 人竹土 (OHG), four-corner 22214, composition ⿰亻壬)
- 姙, 㤛, 拰, 㳝, 栣, 秹, 袵, 絍 (𫟃), 䛘 (𬣯), 銋 (𰽻), 餁
- 荏, 䇮, 凭, 恁, 栠, 㶵, 䋕, 賃 (赁), 䣸, 鵀 (𬸊)
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 94, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 416
- Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 122, character 6
- Unihan data for U+4EFB
trad. 任 simp. # 任 alternative forms 𢓩
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *njɯm, *njɯms): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 壬 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm) – to carry on a shoulder pole.
Note that its phonetic part 壬 (OC *njɯm) may be the graphical representation of 任, depicting a shoulder pole rotated by 90 degrees.
Cognate with 妊 (OC *njɯms, “pregnant”) and Tibetan སྣོམ་པ (snom pa, “to take; seize; hold”). May also be cognate with Proto-Kam-Sui *ȵam¹ (“to hold”) and Old Khmer nāṃ (“to carry”) (Schuessler, 2007).
任
- to carry on a shoulder pole; to carry
- to bear; to endure; to put up with
- to take charge of; to assume the post of; to be in charge of
- to trust to; to rely on; to believe; to guarantee
- to appoint; to assign someone to a post
- to indulge; to be self-indulgent; to allow
- 放任 ― fàngrèn ― to indulge
- load; burden; luggage; baggage
- duty; responsibility; obligation
- 任務／任务 ― rènwù ― task; mission
- tenure; term of office; incumbency
- 現任／现任 ― xiànrèn ― to be currently serving as; incumbent
- 前任 ― qiánrèn ― predecessor
- 繼任／继任 ― jìrèn ― successor
- office; post; position
- officeholder; postholder
- even if; even though
- no matter how; regardless of
- Classifier for terms of office.
任
- (historical) an ancient woman’s rank of nobility
- (historical) an ancient music of the southern indigenous people
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 壬 (rén, “artful; fawning”)
- a surname 任弼時／任弼时 ― Rén Bìshí ― Ren Bishi (military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party)
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00099
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)
- responsibility
- duty
- term
- to entrust to
- to appoint
- Go-on: にん (nin, 任)←にん (nin, 任, historical)←にむ (nimu, 任, ancient)
- Kan-on: じん (jin, 任)←じん (zin, 任, historical)←じむ (zimu, 任, ancient)
- Kun: たえる (taeru, 任える)、まかす (makasu, 任す, Jōyō)、まかせる (makaseru, 任せる, Jōyō)、まき (maki, 任)、まく (maku, 任く)、まけ (make, 任)、まま (mama, 任)
- Nanori: さ (sa, 任)、たえ (tae, 任)、たか (taka, 任)、たかし (takashi, 任)、ただ (tada, 任)、たね (tane, 任)、たもつ (tamotsu, 任)、と (to, 任)、とう (tō, 任)、ひで (hide, 任)
Kanji in this term 任 にんGrade: 5 goon
From Middle Chinese 任 (MC nyimH).
- (Tokyo) にん [níꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
- IPA(key): [ɲ̟ĩɴ]
任(にん) • (nin)
- duty, responsibility, obligation
Kanji in this term 任 まきGrade: 5 kun’yomi
Presumably a 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren’yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of classical verb 任(ま)く (maku, “to appoint someone to an official position, to banish someone”), perhaps in a 五(ご)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (godan katsuyō) variant.
From the same root as 任(まか)す (makasu) and 任(まか)せる (makaseru), likely a *mak- that 任(まか)す (makasu) is the causative or active form of.
- IPA(key): [ma̠kʲi]
任(まき) • (maki)
- (obsolete) appointment Synonym: 任命 (ninmei)
Kanji in this term 任 まけGrade: 5 kun’yomi
The 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren’yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of classical verb 任(ま)く (maku, “to appoint someone to an official position, to banish someone”), in the 二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (nidan katsuyō) class, from a root akin to *mak-; see 任(まき) (maki) above.
- IPA(key): [ma̠ke̞]
任(まけ) • (make)
- (obsolete) appointment Synonym: 任命 (ninmei)
For pronunciation and definitions of 任 – see the following entry. 【儘まま】H [noun] the same, unchanged state, state as it is [noun] (mostly in the form 儘(まま)になる (mama ni naru)) the desired or ideal state, freedom [noun] act of leaving things as it is (This term, 任, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
任 (eumhun 맡길 임 (matgil im))
- hanja form? of 임 (“duty; responsibility”)
任: Hán Việt readings: nhậm[1][2][3], nhiệm[1][3], nhâm[3] 任: Nôm readings: nhậm[1][2][3], nhằm[1][2][3], nhiệm[1][4], nhầm[2][4], nhẩm[3][4], nhăm[3], nhặm[3], vững[3]
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