Chinese characters : Query result

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.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 290

Karlgren code: 0667 f-h

Vietnamese reading: nhậm

Shijing occurrences: 28.4