任
任 — im
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 맡길 임
- Romanization
- im
- English
- trust to, rely on, appoint; to bear, duty, office; allow
- Mandarin
- rèn
- Japanese on'yomi
- ニン, ジン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- まか.せる まか.す
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #217 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 人 (9, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+4EFB
Parts that make up 任
How 任 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 任 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 壬.
Korean example words with 任
- 대임大任 Korean gloss: 중대한 임무
- 시임時任 Korean gloss: 현재의 직임
- 요임要任 Korean gloss: 중요한 임무
- 중임重任 Korean gloss: 중대한 임무
- 현임現任 Korean gloss: 현재의 직임
- 임관任官 Korean gloss: 관직에 임명됨
- 영임榮任 Korean gloss: 영광스러운 임무
- 직임職任 Korean gloss: 직무상 맡은 임무
- 고임苦任 Korean gloss: 어렵고 귀찮은 임무
- 착임着任 Korean gloss: 임명된 직무에 취임함
- 임소任所 Korean gloss: 지방 관원이 근무하는 곳
- 임지任地 Korean gloss: 임무를 받아 근무하는 곳
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 任
- 責任せきにん duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability
- 辞任じにん resignation (from a position)
- 就任しゅうにん assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration
- 任期にんき term of office
- 常任じょうにん standing; regular; permanent
- 後任こうにん successor
- 責任者せきにんしゃ person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party
- 主任しゅにん person in charge; senior staff; manager
- 任務にんむ duty; function; office
- 不信任ふしんにん non-confidence; lack of confidence
- 解任かいにん dismissal (from a post); discharge; removal
- 背任はいにん breach of trust; malfeasance; malpractice
Other hanja read “임”
Other hanja with radical 人
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