Chinese

Adverb

任意

1. as one pleases; as one likes; whatever one wants

Adjective

任意

1. (attributive) arbitrary; willful

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) に​んい [níꜜǹ'ì] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [nĩɴ.i]

Adjectival noun

任意 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana にんい, romaji nin'i)

1. arbitrary, as one wants or thinks
2. free, up to a person, according to their will, voluntary

Inflection

Noun

任意 ‎(hiragana にんい, romaji nin'i)

1. any choices, arbitrary selections
2. free will

Derived terms

• 任意性 (にんいせい) ‎(nin'isei): facultativity

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.