Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/任-rèn-duty;-bear-(a-burden),-Rén-(as-a-surname)

任 rèn duty; bear (a burden), Rén (as a surname) - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

任 rèn duty; bear (a burden), Rén (as a surname) Radical is 人 rén “person” (30), which is written 亻 when occurring at the left side of a character so as not to get in the way of the component at the right. The colloquial name for this radical is 人字旁 rénzìpáng “side made up of the character 人.” Phonetic is 壬 rén, which is the ninth of the heavenly stems.. Distinguish 任 from 什 shén.

Examples

• 任 Rén Ren (also Im or Rim, a Korean surname) [SN]
• 责任 (責任) zérèn responsibility [N]
• 尽责任 (盡責任) jìn zérèn fulfill a responsibility [PH]
• 应尽的责任 (應盡的責任) yīngjìnde zérèn a responsibility that one should carry out [PH]

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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