任 — responsibility, duty, term

にん任 responsibility

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+4EFB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #217 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1078 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

responsibility
duty
term
entrust to
appoint

word

にん nin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

任(にん) nin duty 責(せき) 任(にん) sekinin responsibility 任(にん) 務(む) ninmu duty 辞(じ) 任(にん) jinin resignation 任(にん) 意(い) nini voluntary 主(しゅ) 任(にん) shunin person in charge 選(せん) 任(にん) sennin appointment 任(にん) 命(めい) ninmei appointment

まか maka Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

任(まか) せる makaseru to entrust 任(まか) す makasu to entrust

Appears in idioms

責任転嫁四字熟語

blame, responsibility, revolve, marry into

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

壬 9th heavenly stem

Used as component in (1)

ちん賃 fare

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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