# 賃

| 賃 | U+8CC3, &#36035; 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 2280$_6$, composition ⿱任貝)
* rent, hire
* 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (lin$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jam$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): līm / jīm
    (Teochew, Peng'im): rim$^6$ / rim$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
*** Wade–Giles: lin$^4$
*** Yale: lìn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
*** Palladius: линь (linʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lin⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jam$^6$
*** Yale: yahm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jam$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yem$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /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: rim$^6$ / rim$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jĭm / jím
*** Sinological IPA : /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 | /ɳˠiɪm$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɳᵚim$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /niem$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɳjim$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /njəm$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /nĭĕm$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ni̯əm$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nìn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | nam$^6$ |
* 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
* (obsolete) to employ
* (obsolete) wage
* to rent
* to lease; to rent out

#### Synonyms

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

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)
* 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)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

賃: Hán Nôm readings: nhẫm
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