任
Meanings
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- 1.surname Ren
- 1.to assign
- 2.to appoint
- 3.to take up a post
- 4.office
- 5.responsibility
- 6.to let
- 7.to allow
- 8.to give free rein to
- 9.no matter (how, what etc)
- 10.classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to carry on a shoulder pole; to carry
- 2.to bear; to endure; to put up with
- 3.to take charge of; to assume the post of; to be in charge of
- 4.to trust to; to rely on; to believe; to guarantee
- 5.to appoint; to assign someone to a post
- 6.to indulge; to be self-indulgent; to allow
- 7.load; burden; luggage; baggage
- 8.duty; responsibility; obligation
- 9.tenure; term of office; incumbency
- 10.office; post; position
- 11.officeholder; postholder
- 12.even if; even though
- 13.no matter how; regardless of
- 14.Classifier for terms of office.
- 15.an ancient woman's rank of nobility
- 16.an ancient music of the southern indigenous people
- 17.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *njɯm, *njɯms): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 壬 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm) – to carry on a shoulder pole. Note that its phonetic part 壬 (OC *njɯm) may be the graphical representation of 任, depicting a shoulder pole rotated by 90 degrees. Cognate with 妊 (OC *njɯms, “pregnant”) and Tibetan སྣོམ་པ (snom pa, “to take; seize; hold”). May also be cognate with Proto-Kam-Sui *ȵam¹ (“to hold”) and Old Khmer nāṃ (“to carry”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
他擔任我的嚮導。
He acted as my guide.
這是個危險的任務。
This is a dangerous mission.
他有強烈的責任感。
He has a strong sense of responsibility.
他不勝任這份工作。
He is not qualified for the job.
我無法完成這個任務。
I was unable to complete the task.
我叔叔讓我擔任翻譯。
My uncle had me act as a translator.
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Derived terms
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