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Number: 221
Character: 任
MC description : 深開三去沁日
ZIHUI: 0117 2085
Beijing: ẓǝn 3
Jinan: ẓẽ 3
Xi'an: ẓẽ 3
Taiyuan: zǝŋ 3
Hankou: nǝn 3
Chengdu: zǝn 3
Yangzhou: lǝn 3
Suzhou: zǝn 32
Wenzhou: zaŋ 32
Changsha: ẓǝn 31
Shuangfeng: in 32
Nanchang: lan 32
Meixian: jim 3
Guangzhou: jam 32
Xiamen: ʒim 32
Chaozhou: im 22
Fuzhou: eiŋ 32
Shanghai: zǝŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: žiǝm 3
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Character: 任
Modern (Beijing) reading: rèn rén
Preclassic Old Chinese: nǝm nǝms (~ -im)
Classic Old Chinese: nǝm
Western Han Chinese: nǝm
Eastern Han Chinese: ńǝm
Early Postclassic Chinese: ńim
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńim
Late Postclassic Chinese: ńim
Middle Chinese: ńim ńìm
English meaning : to carry on the shoulder; load
Russian meaning[s]: 1) служба, долг, обязанность, задача; 2) должность; 3) назначить; уполномочить; 4) попустительствовать; пусть себе...; пускай...; 5) любой; какой угодно; 6) доверять; [rén] 1) ноша, поклажа; нести ношу; 2) переносить, стерпеть, вынести; справиться; 3) искренний, откровенный; 4) Жэнь (фамилия)
Comments: Also read *nǝm-s (-im-s), MC ńìm (FQ 汝鴆), Mand. rèn (hence also Viet. nhậm, standard Sino-Viet. nhiệm) 'burden (of office), responsibility; to burden, charge (with responsibility)'. The character is used as well for OC *nǝmʔ (~-imʔ), MC ńím, Mand. rěn 'be flexible, insinuating, artful'. For OC *n- cf. the Min readings (for *ńìm): Xiamen ʒim6, Chaozhou im4, Fuzhou eŋ6, Jianou iŋ6.
Radical: 9
Four-angle index: 290
Karlgren code: 0667 f-h
Vietnamese reading: nhậm
Shijing occurrences: 28.4
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńǝ̆m
Meaning: entrust
Burmese: hńam to entrust (for a time).
Comments: Luce 42.
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