Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

217 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: responsibility, duty, term, entrust to, appoint

Kunyomi: まか.せる まか.す

Onyomi: ニン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

期(にんき)   term of appointment

務(にんむ)   duty, task

意(にんい)   optional, voluntary

(せきにん)   responsibility

(しゅにん)   chief, manager

命する(にんめいする)   appoint

する(しゅうにんする)   be inaugurated, take office [v.i.]

する(ふにんする)   transfer to a new post [v.i.]

する(たんにんする)   be in charge (class) [v.t.]

する(じにんする)   resign

せる(まかせる)   entrust to another [v.t.]

す(まかす)   entrust [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

ニン obligation, duty, charge, responsibility

ニンイ optional, voluntary, arbitrary, random, discretionary, facultative, spontaneous, any, arbitrary

サイニン reappointment

ザイニン being in office

Kunyomi Examples

せる まかせる to entrust (e.g. a task) to another, to leave to, to passively leave to someone else's facilities, to leave to take its natural course, to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim), to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done

まかす to entrust, to leave to a person