任

HSK 7–9#1315 by frequencyradical 亻

rèn["v","qv"]

to take up a post; office; responsibility; to assign; to appoint; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)

Rén

surname Ren

Examples

我看不出任何理由。

I don't see any reason for it.

太郎有很强的责任感。

Taro has a really strong sense of responsibility.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.