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任 (Kangxi radical 9,人+4, 6 strokes,cangjie input人竹土 (OHG),four-corner2221₄,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

Historical forms of the character任
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Bronze inscriptions b12353 b12354 Small seal script s05801 Transcribed ancient scripts L33730 L33731 L12273 L12274 L12275 L12276 L12277 L12278 L12279
References: Mostly from Richard Sears'Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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”) andTibetanསྣོམ་པ(snom pa,“to take; seize; hold”). May also be cognate withProto-Kam-Sui*ȵam¹(“to hold”) andOld Khmernāṃ(“to carry”) (Schuessler, 2007).

任

1. tocarry on ashoulderpole; tocarry
2. tobear; toendure; toput up with
3. totakecharge of; toassume thepost of; to bein charge of
4. totrust to; torely on; tobelieve; toguarantee
5. toappoint; toassign someone to apost
6. toindulge; to beself-indulgent; toallow
   • 放任  ― fàngrèn  ―  to indulge
7. load;burden;luggage;baggage
8. duty;responsibility;obligation
   • 任務／任务  ― rènwù  ―  task; mission
9. tenure;term ofoffice;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 matterhow;regardless of
14. Classifier forterms ofoffice.

任

1. (historical) anancientwoman'srank ofnobility
2. (historical) an ancientmusic of the southernindigenous people
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)alternative form of壬(rén,“artful;fawning”)
4. asurname

   任弼時／任弼时  ― Rén Bìshí  ― Ren Bishi (military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party)

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. responsibility
2. duty
3. term
4. toentrustto
5. toappoint

• 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)

FromMiddle Chinese任 (MC nyimH).

• (Tokyo)にん[níꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ĩɴ]

任(にん)• (nin) 

1. duty,responsibility,obligation

Presumably a連(れん)用(よう)形(けい)(ren'yōkei,“stem orcontinuative form”) of classical verb任(ま)く(maku,“toappoint someone to anofficialposition, tobanish 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) 

1. (obsolete)appointment

   Synonym:任命(ninmei)

The連(れん)用(よう)形(けい)(ren'yōkei,“stem orcontinuative form”) of classical verb任(ま)く(maku,“toappoint someone to anofficialposition, tobanish 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) 

1. (obsolete)appointment

   Synonym:任命(ninmei)

任 (eumhun맡길임(matgil im))

1. hanja form^? of임(“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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