任用

Chinese

		to assign; to appoint; office to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility	to use
trad. (任用)		任	用
simp. #(任用)		任	用

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rènyòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˋ ㄩㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁶ jung⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): līm-iōng / jīm-iōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rènyòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ ㄩㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rènyòng
    • Wade–Giles: jên⁴-yung⁴
    • Yale: rèn-yùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rennyonq
    • Palladius: жэньюн (žɛnʹjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən⁵¹⁻⁵³ jʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam⁶ jung⁶
    • Yale: yahm yuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁶ jung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁶ yung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²² jʊŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līm-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: līm-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixm'iong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lim²²⁻²¹ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lim³³⁻¹¹ iɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lim⁴¹⁻²² iɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīm-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: jīm-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jixm'iong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim²²⁻²¹ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zim³³⁻²¹ iɔŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: nyimH yowngH

Rime
Character	任	用
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	汝鴆切	余頌切
Baxter	nyimH	yowngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪmH/	/jɨoŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵimH/	/jioŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjemH/	/ioŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵimH/	/juawŋH/
Li Rong	/ȵiəmH/	/ioŋH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕmH/	/jĭwoŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯əmH/	/i̯woŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rèn	yòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam6	jung6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n[ə]m-s  loŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯms  loŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	任	用
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rèn	yòng
Middle Chinese	‹ nyimH ›	‹ yowngH ›
Old Chinese	/*n[ə]m-s/	/*loŋ-s/
English	burden; charge (n.)	use (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	任	用
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	10823	15460
Phonetic component	壬	用
Rime group	侵	東
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	妊	用
Old Chinese	/*njɯms/	/*loŋs/

Verb

任用

1. to appoint to a position; to assign to a post

Synonyms

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• 任命 (rènmìng)
• 委任 (wěirèn)
• 委派 (wěipài)
• 委用 (wěiyòng) (formal)
• 引用 (yǐnyòng) (Classical Chinese)
• 錄用 / 录用 (lùyòng)
• 齒錄 / 齿录 (chǐlù) (literary)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (任用):

• → Japanese: 任用(にんよう) (nin'yō)
• → Korean: 임용(任用) (imyong)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
任	用
にん Grade: 5	よう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ĩɰ̃jo̞ː]

Noun

任(にん)用(よう) • (nin'yō) 

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References

• “任用”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025