賃 means “fee, rent, wages”

ちん · chin

Also: fare, hire

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チン

JLPT N1 · Taught in grade 6 · 13 strokes

The story

Money (貝) under 任, a job entrusted to someone: pay for work done or for things borrowed. 賃 is a fee: 家賃 is the rent, 運賃 a train or bus fare, and 賃貸, on every real estate listing, means for rent.

Used in 家賃 (yachin, rent), 運賃 (unchin, fare), and 賃金 (chingin, wages)

More from Pay & Taxes

• 賠 compensation
• 稼 earn
• 酬 reward
• 俸 salary
• 租 tax
• 賦 levy
• 捗 progress
• 就 take up
• 償 compensate
• 貢 tribute

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.