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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土月山金 (OGBUC), four-corner 22806, composition)

  1. rent, hire
  2. hired person

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
*nɯmʔ
*nɯms
*njɯm, *njɯms
*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯms
*njɯms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nɯms) : phonetic  (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + semantic  (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



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (140)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/niemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳjimH/
Li
Rong
/njəmH/
Wang
Li
/nĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nìn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10807
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nɯms/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 投賃投赁
  • 汽車租賃汽车租赁
  • 租賃租赁 (zūlìn)
  • 租賃契約租赁契约
  • 賃屋赁屋

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. wage, rent, charge

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(im) (hangeul , revised im, McCune-Reischauer im, Yale im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhẫm)

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