# 任 — Duty

Frequency rank 339 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 打 (Hit), less common than 士 (Samurai).

- On’yomi: にん
- Kun’yomi: まか
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 6

A leader on the left stands before a king on the right — the leader accepts the king's assignment, taking on a new duty to serve the realm.

In words:

- 任す まかす — to entrust;to leave to a person
- 任せる まかせる — to entrust to another,to leave to
- 任務 にんむ — duty;function;office;mission;task

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