U+8CC3 "賃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8CC3 "賃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean, where it is traditionally classified as a radical 154 (貝, "shell") character with a standard meaning of "rent," "wages," or "fare." In modern usage, it is most commonly seen in words like "住宅賃貸" (residential rental) and "賃金" (wages or salary), reflecting its core association with payment for temporary use of property or for labor. The character combines the semantic component 貝 (shell, representing wealth or money) with the phonetic component 壬, though its pronunciation varies by language: Mandarin Chinese "lìn," Japanese "chin" (as in 賃貸/ちんたい), and Korean "im." Historically, it has retained its economic and contractual connotations across East Asian writing systems.