任命
Chinese
to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility | life; fate | ||
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trad. (任命) | 任 | 命 | |
simp. #(任命) | 任 | 命 |
Pronunciation
Verb
任命
- to appoint
- (literary) to resign oneself to fate
- (literary) to receive instructions
Derived terms
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Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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任 | 命 |
にん Grade: 5 | めい Grade: 3 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese compound 任命 (MC ȵiɪmH mˠiæŋH, “burden, charge + command”). Compare modern Mandarin 任命 (rènmìng, “to appoint”).
Pronunciation
- On’yomi
- (Tokyo) にんめー [nìńméé] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
- IPA(key): [ɲ̟ĩmːe̞ː]
Noun
任命 (hiragana にんめい, rōmaji ninmei)
- an appointment, assignment, installation, induction, or instatement of a person to an office or position
Antonyms
- 罷免 (himen, “dismissal”)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 任命権 (ninmeiken): appointive power, the power to appoint or name someone to an office or position
- 任命式 (ninmeishiki): a swearing-in ceremony
Related terms
- 任用 (nin'yō)
Verb
任命する (suru conjugation, hiragana にんめいする, rōmaji ninmei suru)
- to appoint, assign, install, induct, or instate a person to an office or position
- 課長に任命する
- kachō ni ninmei suru
- to appoint or name someone to the position of department or section manager
- 課長に任命する
Conjugation
Conjugation of "任命する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms | ||||
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Imperfective (未然形) | 任命し | にんめいし | ninmei shi | |
Continuative (連用形) | 任命し | にんめいし | ninmei shi | |
Terminal (終止形) | 任命する | にんめいする | ninmei suru | |
Attributive (連体形) | 任命する | にんめいする | ninmei suru | |
Hypothetical (仮定形) | 任命すれ | にんめいすれ | ninmei sure | |
Imperative (命令形) | 任命せよ¹ 任命しろ² | にんめいせよ¹ にんめいしろ² | ninmei seyo¹ ninmei shiro² | |
Key constructions | ||||
Passive | 任命される | にんめいされる | ninmei sareru | |
Causative | 任命させる 任命さす | にんめいさせる にんめいさす | ninmei saseru ninmei sasu | |
Potential | 任命できる | にんめいできる | ninmei dekiru | |
Volitional | 任命しよう | にんめいしよう | ninmei shiyō | |
Negative | 任命しない | にんめいしない | ninmei shinai | |
Negative continuative | 任命せず | にんめいせず | ninmei sezu | |
Formal | 任命します | にんめいします | ninmei shimasu | |
Perfective | 任命した | にんめいした | ninmei shita | |
Conjunctive | 任命して | にんめいして | ninmei shite | |
Hypothetical conditional | 任命すれば | にんめいすれば | ninmei sureba | |
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative |
References
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.