Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

賃: fare, fee

Also: hire, rent, wages, charge

JLPT N113 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

貝 carries the meaning · 任 gives the sound

13 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

チンchin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 賃金ちんぎんwages
  • 賃上げちんあげwage increase
  • 家賃やちんrent
  • 運賃うんちんfreight rates, fare
  • 工賃こうちんwages, pay
  • 手間賃てまちんwages for labor, pay
  • 電車賃でんしゃちんtrain fare
  • 借り賃かりちんrent fare

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
賃 fare · 任 + 貝
vs債 bond · 亻 + 責
賃 has 任 + 貝 where 債 has 亻 + 責.
In ChineseSimplified 赁 · traditional, as in Japanese · lìn

Japan keeps the traditional form 賃; mainland China simplifies it to 赁.

Simplified
赁 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
賃 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lìn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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