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任

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 339 / 2,608

Duty

On’yomi
にん
Kun’yomi
まか
Radical
人 Person (Kangxi 9)
School grade
5
Strokes
6

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

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

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 personN1
任せる まかせる to entrust to another,to leave toN3
任務 にんむ duty;function;office;mission;taskN1

任 is rank 339 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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