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U+8CC3, 賃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC3

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 154, +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土月山金 (OGBUC), four-corner 22806, composition )

  1. rent, hire
  2. hired person

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36743
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3639, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8CC3

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *nɯms) : phonetic (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + semantic (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)”.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (140)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter nrimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/niemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳjimH/
Li
Rong
/njəmH/
Wang
Li
/nĭĕmH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ni̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
nam6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10807
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nɯms/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete) to employ
  2. (obsolete) wage
  3. to rent
  4. to lease; to rent out

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. wage, rent, charge

Readings

  • Go-on: にん (nin)
  • Kan-on: じん (jin)
  • Kan’yō-on: ちん (chin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: やとう (yatou, 賃う)

Korean

Hanja

(im) (hangeul , revised im, McCune–Reischauer im, Yale im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: nhẫm

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