壬

壬 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹土 (HG), four-corner 2010₄, composition ⿱丿士(GJKV) or ⿱一士(HT))

• 任, 𠰃, 妊, 廷, 𨑳, 𢗖, 𢪭, 𭯺, 狅, 𣐅, 𭷗, 祍, 䏕, 𥄮, 衽, 紝 (纴), 䚾, 𦔽, 軠, 鈓 (𬬯), 𭐺, 飪 (饪)
• 𫧺, 𠁪, 𫡖, 𫡘, 𧠒, 丢, 㸒, 𡔟, 𡴍, 𡔨, 𣈂, 𭰶, 𩂐, 𩬎, 𡅚, 𡔞, 𢇦, 𫊟, 𢧌, 𨳝
• 𰃧, 䨙

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5639
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58EC

Historical forms of the character 壬
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

Pictogram (象形) : Possibly carrying pole with a point drawn in the middle, a meaning that was later transferred to 任 (rèn). As an alternative, it's a double-blade axe perhaps made of stone.

The pole is drawn like 工, however the two characters are unrelated; their correlation should belong to folk etymology.

壬

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. crafty; fawning
3. a surname
4. (Internet slang, derogatory) Eye dialect spelling of 人 (rén).

• (Chinese heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁 (dīng), 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}

• → Zhuang: nyaemz

• “壬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Entry #782”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. ninth rank
   1. something I

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kun: みずのえ (mizunoe, 壬)^{←みづのえ (midunoe, 壬, historical)}
• Nanori: つぐ (tsugu)、みず (mizu)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

壬

Wikipedia ^ja

From Middle Chinese 壬 (nyim).

• (Tokyo) じん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

• Homophones: ジン, 人, 刃, 仁, 沈, 陣, 尋, 塵

壬(じん) • (Jin) 

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems; something I

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

水 (Mizu, “Water”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

• (Tokyo) みずのえ (Nakadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

壬(みずのえ) • (Mizunoe) ^{←みづのえ (Midunoe)?}

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

壬 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im)

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壬: Hán Nôm readings: nhăm, nhám, nhằm, nhâm, râm, nhẹm

1. chữ Hán form of Nhâm (“ninth of the ten heavenly stems”).

   Hypernyms: 天干, 十干

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸