任 in English
- to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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FSI人员：“长官，有一个网站，任何人都可以加上一个外国语言的句子！“。FSI主席：“什么？ 炸掉他们！“。
FSI officer: "Sir, there is a website where ANYONE can add a sentence in a foreign language!". FSI president: "What?! Bomb them!".
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不要做任何会让你后悔的事。
Don't do anything you'll regret.
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不要往地上扔任何东西。
Don't throw anything onto the floor.
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不要把我们的计划告诉任何人。
Don't tell anyone our plan.
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世界上任何山峰都达不到珠穆朗玛峰的高度。
No other mountain in the world is as tall as Mt. Everest.
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中国和印度的人口超过了其他任何国家。
The populations of China and India dwarf those of every other nation.
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人类假设我们的任务是完成只有上帝能做的事，这太自以为是了。
It's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do.
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今天没有任何下雨的可能性。
There is no chance of rain today.