壬

壬 (radical 33, 士+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹土 (HG), four-corner 2010₄, composition ⿱丿士(GJKV) or ⿱一士(HT))

• 任

• KangXi: page 243, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5639
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 417, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58EC

Historical forms of the character 壬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : Possibly a carrying pole, a meaning that was later transferred to 任 (rèn).

壬

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. A surname​.

• (heavenly stems) 天干; 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

• “Entry #791”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. something I
   1. ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems
   2. ninth rank

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kun: みずのえ (mizunoe, 壬)

From Middle Chinese 壬 (nyim)

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) じ​ん [jíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑĩɴ]
• Homophones: ジン, 人, 刃, 仁, 沈, 陣, 尋, 塵

壬 (hiragana じん, rōmaji Jin)

1. something I; the ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems

水 (Mizu, “Water”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) みずの​え [mìzúnóꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA^(key): [mʲizɨᵝno̞e̞]

壬 (hiragana みずのえ, rōmaji Mizunoe, historical hiragana みづのえ)

1. the ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems

壬 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im)

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壬 (nhăm, nhám, nhằm, nhâm, râm, nhẹm)

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