lìn

rent

Someone  working for money 

Components
任 meaning component

  Meaning component

rènrén

  

responsibility

貝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

Evolution

賃 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
賃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
賃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lìn

rent, hire; hired person; to rent

Most common words with 賃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

租赁

to rent

to rent

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3101st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8CC3

Shuowen

“賃,庸也。从貝,任聲。”


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