赁

Translingual

simpl.		赁
trad.		賃

Etymology

Simplified from 賃 (貝 → 贝).

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 任 + semantic 贝 (“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)”.

Han character

赁 (radical 154 贝+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土月人 (OGBO))

1. rent, hire
2. hired person

See also

• 货

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1213, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3639, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8D41

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Cantonese

Hanzi

赁 (traditional 賃, Yale yam6)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

赁 (traditional 賃, pinyin rèn (ren4), Wade-Giles jen⁴)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 14:19