赁

賃

lìn

任 + 贝

Frequency#3100

Definitions

lìn (verb) to rent

Etymology

Someone 任 working for money 贝

About

The character '赁' derives from its traditional form '賃', a phono-semantic compound where the semantic component '貝' indicates monetary value and the phonetic component '任' suggests the assumption of a task, together conveying the idea of a paid transaction for temporary use. Over time, this character has denoted the act of hiring or leasing, with its simplified form '赁' altering the semantic element to '贝' while retaining '任', thus continuing to represent commercial arrangements involving rent or hire.

Etymology Hide

Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional Modern

Simplified Modern

Example Sentences Hide

我租赁了一辆车。

Wǒ zūlìnle yī liàng chē.

I rented a car.

这间房子是赁来的。

Zhè jiān fángzi shì lìn lái de.

This house is rented.

他赁居在城东的公寓。

Tā lìn jū zài chéng dōng de gōngyù.

He rents an apartment in the east of the city.

公司赁了一间新办公室。

Gōngsī lìnle yī jiān xīn bàngōngshì.

The company leased a new office.

租赁合同需要双方签字。

Zūlìn hétóng xūyào shuāngfāng qiānzì.

The lease contract requires signatures from both parties.

他们以短期租赁的方式经营。

Tāmen yǐ duǎnqí zūlìn de fāngshì jīngyíng.

They operate on a short-term rental basis.

这套设备的赁金非常高昂。

Zhè tào shèbèi de lìn jīn fēicháng gāo'áng.

The rental fee for this set of equipment is very high.

此商铺的赁契已进行公证。

Cǐ shāngpù de lìn qì yǐ jìnxíng gōngzhèng.

The lease deed for this shop has been notarized.

Related Characters

Component: 任

Component: 贝

赁