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Stroke order
6 strokes

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

trad. 任
simp. # 任

| | 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 *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).

Note: literary.

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 任
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) rèn
MiddleChinese ‹ nyimH ›
OldChinese /*n[ə]m-s/
English burden; charge (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 任
Reading # 2/2
No. 10823
Phoneticcomponent 壬
Rimegroup 侵
Rimesubdivision 1
CorrespondingMC rime 妊
OldChinese /*njɯms/

任

  1. to carry on a shoulder pole; to carry
  2. to bear; to endure; to put up with
  3. to take charge of; to assume the post of; to be in charge of
  4. to trust to; to rely on; to believe; to guarantee
  5. to appoint; to assign someone to a post
  6. to indulge; to be self-indulgent; to allow
    • 放任 ― fàngrèn ― to indulge
  7. load; burden; luggage; baggage
  8. duty; responsibility; obligation
  9. 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
  10. office; post; position
  11. officeholder; postholder
  12. even if; even though
  13. no matter how; regardless of
  14. Classifier for terms of office.

Note:

Note: vernacular (“surname”).

任

  1. (historical) an ancient woman's rank of nobility
  2. (historical) an ancient music of the southern indigenous people
  3. † Alternative form of 壬 (rén, “artful; fawning”)
  4. a surname
    任弼時／任弼时 ― Rén Bìshí ― Ren Bishi (military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party)

任

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. responsibility
  2. duty
  3. term
  4. entrust to
  5. appoint
Kanji in this term
任
にんGrade: 5
goon

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任(にん) • (nin)

  1. duty, responsibility, obligation
Kanji in this term
任
まきGrade: 5
kun'yomi

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任(まき) • (maki)

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Kanji in this term
任
まけGrade: 5
kun'yomi

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任(まけ) • (make)

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For pronunciation and definitions of 任 – see the following entry.
(This term, 任, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

任 (eumhun 맡길 임 (matgil im))

  1. 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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  2. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nguyễn (2014).

  3. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

  4. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Trần (2004).

  5. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hồ (1976).