任意

Chinese

 
to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility
 
idea; meaning; wish; desire; (abbr.) Italy
trad. (任意)
simp. #(任意)

Pronunciation


Adverb

任意

  1. as one pleases; as one likes; whatever one wants

Adjective

任意

  1. (attributive) arbitrary; willful

Derived terms

  • 任意性
  • 任意法

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (任意):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
にん
Grade: 5

Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

任意 (-na inflection, hiragana にんい, rōmaji nin'i)

  1. arbitrary, as one wants or thinks
  2. free, up to a person, according to their will, voluntary

Inflection

Noun

任意 (hiragana にんい, rōmaji nin'i)

  1. any choices, arbitrary selections
  2. free will

Derived terms

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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