任命

Chinese
 
to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility
 life; fate
trad. (任命) 任 命
simp. #(任命) 任 命

Pronunciation

Verb

任命

  1. to appoint
  2. (literary) to resign oneself to fate
  3. (literary) to receive instructions

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
任 命
にん
Grade: 5		 めい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 任命 (MC ȵiɪmH mˠiæŋH, “burden, charge + command”). Compare modern Mandarin 任命 (rènmìng, “to appoint”).

Pronunciation

Noun

任命 (hiragana にんめい, rōmaji ninmei)

  1. an appointment, assignment, installation, induction, or instatement of a person to an office or position

Antonyms

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 任命権 (にんめいけん) (ninmeiken): appointive power, the power to appoint or name someone to an office or position
  • 任命式 (にんめいしき) (ninmeishiki): a swearing-in ceremony

Verb

任命する (suru conjugation, hiragana にんめいする, rōmaji ninmei suru)

  1. to appoint, assign, install, induct, or instate a person to an office or position
    課長 (かちょう)に任命 (にんめい)する
    kachō ni ninmei suru
    to appoint or name someone to the position of department or section manager

Conjugation
Conjugation of "任命する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 任命し にんめいし ninmei shi
Continuative (連用形) 任命し にんめいし ninmei shi
Terminal (終止形) 任命する にんめいする ninmei suru
Attributive (連体形) 任命する にんめいする ninmei suru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 任命すれ にんめいすれ ninmei sure
Imperative (命令形) 任命せよ¹
任命しろ²		 にんめいせよ¹
にんめいしろ²		 ninmei seyo¹
ninmei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 任命される にんめいされる ninmei sareru
Causative 任命させる
任命さす		 にんめいさせる
にんめいさす		 ninmei saseru
ninmei sasu
Potential 任命できる にんめいできる ninmei dekiru
Volitional 任命しよう にんめいしよう ninmei shiyō
Negative 任命しない にんめいしない ninmei shinai
Negative continuative 任命せず にんめいせず ninmei sezu
Formal 任命します にんめいします ninmei shimasu
Perfective 任命した にんめいした ninmei shita
Conjunctive 任命して にんめいして ninmei shite
Hypothetical conditional 任命すれば にんめいすれば ninmei sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

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
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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