赁
lìn HSK7

rent

Someone 任 working for money 贝

Components

任
任 Meaning component
rèn responsibility
贝
贝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

賃 rent Traditional

Someone 任 working for money 貝

Components

任
任 Meaning component
rèn responsibility
貝
貝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangnɯms

說文解字

庸也。从貝任聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)