任

entrust; responsibility; duty; term; entrust to; appoint

6 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 217.

Readings

• ニン (on reading): 就任 (しゅうにん) assumption (of office); 歴任 (れきにん) successive jobs
• まかせる (kun reading): 任せる (まかせる) to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone); お任せ (おまかせ) leaving (a decision, job, etc.) to someone else
• まかす (kun reading): 任す (まかす) to entrust (to someone)

Components

• 亻
• 壬
• ノ radical slash, katakana no
• ⺅ radical person, left-side form of 人
• 士 radical scholar; samurai
• 王 radical king; jewel, left-side form of 玉

Kanji containing 任

• 賃 fare
• 荏 bean
• 凭 lean on
• 姙 be(come) pregnant
• 恁 like this
• 袵 neck of a garment

Words using 任

• 就任 (しゅうにん) assumption (of office)
• 歴任 (れきにん) successive jobs
• 任天堂 (にんてんどう) Nintendo
• 責任 (せきにん) duty
• 任じる (にんじる) to appoint
• 任せる (まかせる) to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone)
• お任せ (おまかせ) leaving (a decision, job, etc.) to someone else
• 任せ (まかせ) leaving everything up to someone else
• 力任せ (ちからまかせ) using all one's strength
• 人任せ (ひとまかせ) leaving (it) to others
• 任す (まかす) to entrust (to someone)

292 words in all.

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