主任

Chinese

		to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary	to assign; to appoint; office to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility
trad. (主任)		主	任
simp. ^#(主任)		主	任

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhǔrèn

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ ㄖㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu² jam⁶
Gan (Wiktionary): 'jy³ liin⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chú-yim

(Hailu, HRS): zhu^ˊ rhim^˖
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chú-līm / chú-jīm

(Teochew, Peng'im): zu² rim⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsy-zen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔrèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ ㄖㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔrèn
  - Wade–Giles: chu³-jên⁴
  - Yale: jǔ-rèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juurenn
  - Palladius: чжужэнь (čžužɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zyu² jam⁶
  - Yale: jyú yahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzy² jam⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ju² yem⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³⁵ jɐm²²/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'jy³ liin⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈt͡ɕy²¹³⁻²⁴ lɨn¹¹/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-yim
  - Hakka Romanization System: zu^ˋ im
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zu³ yim⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹ im⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-yim
  - Hakka Romanization System: zu^ˋ (r)im
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zu³ yim⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹ (j)im⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: zhu^ˊ rhim^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃu²⁴⁻³³ ʒim³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú-līm
  - Tâi-lô: tsú-līm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zwlim
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /t͡su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lim⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lim³³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú-jīm
  - Tâi-lô: tsú-jīm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zwjim
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zim²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zim³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zu² rim⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsú jĭm
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ d͡zim³⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tsy-zen
  - MiniDict: tsy^去 zen
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr-zen
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³³ zən⁴⁴/

Noun

主任

director; chairman; supervisor
(Hong Kong) officer

Derived terms

主任委員 / 主任委员
教務主任 / 教务主任
班主任 (bānzhǔrèn)
系主任 (xìzhǔrèn)

References

“主任”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
主	任
しゅ Grade: 3	にん Grade: 5
kan'on	goon

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しゅにん [shùníń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ɕɨɲ̟ĩɴ]

Noun

主(しゅ)任(にん) • (shunin)

a chief; a head
- 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの階(かい)段(だん) [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Ｑ.(キュー)Ｅ.(イー)Ｄ.(ディー) 証(しょう)明(めい)終(しゅう)了(りょう) [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 91:
  
  人(じん)工(こう)生(せい)命(めい)研(けん)究(きゅう)室(しつ)　主(しゅ)任(にん)　エバ゠スークタ
  Jinkō Seimei Kenkyūshitsu Shunin Eba-Sūkuta
  Eva Sukta, Chief of the Artificial Life Laboratory

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
主	任

Noun

主任

chữ Hán form of chủ nhiệm (“chief”)

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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