nèn

that

Components

Sound component
rèn responsibility
Meaning component
xīn, xin heart

heart

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnyimXn[ə]mʔthink
Zhengzhangnjɯm
njɯmʔ

說文解字

下齎也。从心任聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica