賃

See also: 赁 and 貨

賃 U+8CC3, 賃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC3 ← 賂 [U+8CC2] CJK Unified Ideographs 賄 → [U+8CC4]

Translingual

Han character

賃 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土月山金 (OGBUC), four-corner 2280₆, composition ⿱任貝)

1. rent, hire
2. hired person

Derived characters

• 𠿹

Descendants

• 赁

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36743
• Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3639, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8CC3

Chinese

trad.		賃
simp.		赁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
紝	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
鵀	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
拰	*nɯmʔ
賃	*nɯms
任	*njɯm, *njɯms
壬	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
恁	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
銋	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
荏	*njɯmʔ
餁	*njɯmʔ
栠	*njɯmʔ
袵	*njɯmʔ
飪	*njɯmʔ
妊	*njɯms
衽	*njɯms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *nɯms): phonetic 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + semantic 貝 (“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)”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): līm / jīm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): rim⁶ / rim²

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁶
    • Yale: yahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līm
    • Tâi-lô: līm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lim²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lim⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīm
    • Tâi-lô: jīm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jim
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: rim⁶ / rim²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jĭm / jím
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zim³⁵/, /d͡zim⁵²/

---

• Middle Chinese: nrimH

Rime
Character	賃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	乃禁切
Baxter	nrimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/niemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjimH/
Li Rong	/njəmH/
Wang Li	/nĭĕmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ni̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nam6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	賃
Reading #	1/1
No.	10807
Phonetic component	壬
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賃
Old Chinese	/*nɯms/

Definitions

賃

1. (obsolete) to employ
2. (obsolete) wage
3. to rent
4. to lease; to rent out

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 租 (“to rent”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		賃
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		租, 租賃
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	租
	Harbin	租
	Singapore	租
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	租, 賃
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	租
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	租, 賃
	Wanrong	租 more literary, 賃
	Xi'an	租, 賃
	Xining	租
	Xuzhou	租, 賃
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	租, 賃
	Ürümqi	租, 賃
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	租
	Wuhan	租
	Guiyang	租, 佃
	Liuzhou	租
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	租
	Yangzhou	租
Cantonese	Guangzhou	租
	Hong Kong	租
Gan	Nanchang	租
	Lichuan	賃
Hakka	Meixian	租
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	稅, 租
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	稅, 租
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	稅, 租
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	稅, 租
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	稅, 租
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	稅
Huizhou	Jixi	租
Jin	Taiyuan	租, 賃
	Xinzhou	租, 賃
Northern Min	Jian'ou	租
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	租
Southern Min	Xiamen	稅
	Zhangzhou	稅
	Tainan	稅
	Penang (Hokkien)	稅
	Singapore (Hokkien)	稅
	Shantou	稅
	Shantou (Chenghai)	稅
	Jieyang	稅
	Singapore (Teochew)	稅
	Leizhou	租
	Haikou	租
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	租
Wu	Shanghai	租
	Shanghai (Chongming)	租
	Suzhou	租
	Danyang	租
	Hangzhou	租
	Wenzhou	稅
	Jinhua	賃
Xiang	Changsha	佃

Compounds

• 投賃 / 投赁
• 汽車租賃 / 汽车租赁 (qìchē zūlìn)
• 租賃 / 租赁 (zūlìn)
• 租賃契約 / 租赁契约
• 賃屋 / 赁屋
• 賃房 / 赁房
• 賃金 / 赁金 (lìnjīn)

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 賃

賃

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. wage, rent, charge

Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kan’yō-on: ちん (chin, Jōyō)
• Kun: やとう (yatou, 賃う)

Korean

Hanja

賃 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im, Yale im)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

賃: Hán Nôm readings: nhẫm

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.