Kanji N3

任: responsibility, duty, term

任 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning responsibility, duty, term, written with 6 strokes. It is read ニン (on) and まかせる, まかす (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 責任 (せきにん, duty) and 任せる (まかせる, to leave).

任

Meanings

  • responsibility
  • duty
  • term
  • entrust to
  • appoint
Strokes6
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#217 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ニン

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

Kun reading
  • まかせる
  • まかす

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 任

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

  • 責任せきにん

    duty

    JLPT N3
  • 任せるまかせる

    to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone)

    JLPT N3
  • 主任しゅにん

    person in charge; senior staff; manager; chief

    JLPT N1
  • 任務にんむ

    duty; function; office; mission; task; role

    JLPT N1
  • 信任しんにん

    trust; confidence; credence

    JLPT N1
  • 任命にんめい

    appointment; nomination; ordination; commission

    JLPT N1
  • 就任しゅうにん

    assumption (of office); taking up (a post)

    JLPT N2
  • 任すまかす

    to entrust (to someone)

    JLPT N1

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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.