Kanji N1

賃: fare, fee, hire

賃 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning fare, fee, hire, written with 13 strokes. It is read チン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 賃金 (ちんぎん, wages) and 運賃 (うんちん, fare).

賃

Meanings

  • fare
  • fee
  • hire
  • rent
  • wages
  • charge
Strokes13
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#961 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • チン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 賃

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 賃金ちんぎん

    wages; pay

    JLPT N1
  • 運賃うんちん

    (passenger) fare

    JLPT N1
  • 家賃やちん

    rent

    JLPT N3
  • 賃貸ちんたい

    leasing (out); renting out; hiring out; letting

  • 賃上げちんあげ

    wage increase; pay rise

  • 賃借ちんしゃく

    renting; rental; hiring; leasing (from)

  • 労賃ろうちん

    wages

  • 賃下げちんさげ

    pay cut

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.