Measure word
- 任 rèn to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter... attested in use
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 務, the traditional character: 务 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 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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Jane 年轻时曾做过女乘务员。
Jane was a stewardess when she was young.
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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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他主动帮他妈妈做家务。
He takes the initiative in helping his mother do the housework.
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任何任务都可能变得费力。
Any task may become painful.
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你最好去一下医务室。
You had better go to the infirmary.
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做餐馆服务员啊、酒吧招待员啊，都可以。
Either as a waiter at a restaurant or a bartender, both are OK.
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在服务台另外预约。
Make another appointment at the front desk.
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夫妻分担家务的情况愈来愈普遍。
More and more married couples share household chores.