任

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

• 姙, 㤛, 拰, 㳝, 栣, 𭴞, 𭹆, 秹, 絍(𫟃), 袵, 䛘(𬣯), 銋, 餁, 荏, 䇮, 𫕤, 凭, 𫶭, 恁, 栠, 㶵, 𬓧, 䋕, 賃(赁), 䣸, 鵀(𬸊)

• KangXi: page 94, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 416
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: 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 in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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, 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 that was rotated for 90 degrees.

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
7. load; burden; luggage; baggage
8. duty; responsibility; obligation
9. tenure; term of office; incumbency
10. office; post; position
11. officeholder; postholder
12. even if; even though
13. no matter how; regardless of
14. Classifier for terms of office.

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”).
4. A surname​.

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. responsibility
2. duty
3. term
4. entrust to
5. appoint

• Go-on: にん (nin, Jōyō)^{←にん (nin, historical)←にむ (nimu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: じん (jin)^{←じん (zin, historical)←じむ (zimu, ancient)}
• Kun: まかす (makasu, 任す, Jōyō); まかせる (makaseru, 任せる, Jōyō); になう (ninau, 任う); たえる (taeru, 任える)
• Nanori: さ (sa); とう (tō); ひで (hide)

任 (hiragana にん, rōmaji nin)

1. duty, responsibility, obligation

任 (eum 임 (im))

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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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