任命

Chinese
 
to assign; to appoint; office
to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility
 life; fate
trad. (任命) 任 命
simp. #(任命) 任 命

Pronunciation

Verb

任命

  1. to appoint; to assign a job; to assign a role
    她被任命為校長。 [MSC, trad.]
    她被任命为校长。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā bèi rènmìng wéi xiàozhǎng. [Pinyin]
    She was appointed principal.
  2. (literary) to resign oneself to fate
  3. (literary) to receive instructions

Synonyms
  • (to appoint):

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
任 命
にん
Grade: 5		 めい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 任命 (MC nyimH mjaengH, “burden, charge + command”). Compare modern Mandarin 任命 (rènmìng, “to appoint”).

Pronunciation

Noun

任(にん)命(めい) • (ninmei) 

  1. an appointment, assignment, installation, induction, or instatement of a person to an office or position

Antonyms

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 任命権(にんめいけん) (ninmeiken): appointive power, the power to appoint or name someone to an office or position
  • 任命式(にんめいしき) (ninmeishiki): a swearing-in ceremony

Verb

任(にん)命(めい)する • (ninmei suru) suru (stem 任(にん)命(めい)し (ninmei shi), past 任(にん)命(めい)した (ninmei shita))

  1. to appoint, assign, install, induct, or instate a person to an office or position
    Synonym: 命ずる
    課長(かちょう)に任命(にんめい)する
    kachō ni ninmei suru
    to appoint or name someone to the position of department or section manager

Conjugation
Conjugation of "任命する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 任命し にんめいし ninmei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 任命し にんめいし ninmei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 任命する にんめいする ninmei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 任命する にんめいする ninmei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 任命すれ にんめいすれ ninmei sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 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
  1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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