赁

See also: 賃

赁	U+8D41, 赁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D41

← 赀
[U+8D40]

CJK Unified Ideographs

赂 →
[U+8D42]

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 賃 (貝 → 贝).

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + semantic 贝 (“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)”.

Han character

赁 (radical 154, 贝+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土月人 (OGBO), composition ⿱任贝)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 1213, character 21

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3639, character 6

Unihan data for U+8D41

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 赁 – see 賃 (“rent, wage; rent, hire; etc.”). (This character, 赁, is the simplified form of 賃.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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