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賃金 (ちんぎん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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The minimum wage was raised.
He complained about unpaid wages.
Usage patterns 賃ちん 金ぎん を 支し 払はら う to pay wages
The company has an obligation to pay wages to its employees.
賃ちん 金ぎん が 上あ がる / 下さ がる wages rise / fall
Wages went up due to the economic recovery.
〈 人ひと 〉 に 賃ちん 金ぎん を 払はら う to pay wages to someone
The factory pays its workers their daily wages.
Related words· 9 給料 usually means a fixed monthly salary, while 賃金 is the broader term used especially for hourly or daily pay in labor economics.
賃貸料 is the modern standard word for rental fee, replacing the archaic ちんきん reading of 賃金 that once meant rent.
給与 is the formal term employers use for total compensation (including allowances), while 賃金 focuses specifically on pay for labor.
報酬 covers any reward or fee for services rendered, whereas 賃金 specifically refers to wages paid to employed workers.
Show 5 more 労賃 is a more colloquial, industrial term for wages, while 賃金 is the standard economic and legal term.
賃金 is a formal term for wages used in labor and legal contexts, whereas ペイ is a breezy, informal loanword for the same idea.
賃金 is a formal economic term for wages, often for hourly or manual labor, whereas サラリー suggests a fixed monthly pay for office work.
Don't confuse with 家賃 specifically means rent paid for housing, while 賃金 (in its main sense) means wages paid for labor, even though both share the kanji 賃.
代金 is the money paid for goods or a purchase, while 賃金 means wages paid to a worker for labor; the two share the kanji 金 but differ completely in meaning.
Word family· 22 low wages; low pay
wage rate; rate of pay
extra pay; premium wages
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 賃, “wages or payment,” and 金, “money,” read ぎん in this word.
俸ほう 給きゅう
賃金 typically refers to wages paid for hourly or manual labor, while 俸給 implies a fixed monthly salary, especially for officials.
賃金 is the broad, formal/legal term for wages in general, while 日当 refers specifically to a set amount paid per day.
賃金 means wages paid to a worker, whereas 運賃 is the fare or shipping charge paid for transportation; the two share the kanji 賃 but refer to very different kinds of payment.
名めい 目もく 賃ちん 金ぎん
basic wage; regular wage; base pay
Show 5 more real wages
minimum wage
lifetime earnings
reservation wage
efficiency wages
賃ちん
銀ぎん
Usage <1%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form; 銀 is an older character for 'silver/money' but 賃金 is strongly preferred in modern Japanese.