賃ちん金ぎん

also: ちんきん

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

noun

wages; pay

Standard term for wages or salary paid to workers, especially in economic or labor contexts.

最さい低てい賃ちん金ぎんが引ひき上あげられた。
The minimum wage was raised.
彼かれは賃ちん金ぎんの未み払はらいを訴うった

え

た

。

He complained about unpaid wages.

2

noun

rental payment

Only with reading ちんきん

Rare, archaic sense meaning 'rent' or 'rental fee', used only with the reading ちんきん. Modern Japanese uses 賃貸料 or 家賃 instead.

古こ文ぶん書しょには「賃ちん金ぎん」を「ちんきん」と読よんで地ち代だいの意い味みで使つかう例れいがある。
In old documents, there are examples where 賃金 is read as ちんきん and used to mean land rent.

Written forms

賃金Usage100%
- ちんぎん
  Standard kanji form for 'wages'; the reading ちんぎん is the most common.
- ちんきん
  Rare reading used only for the 'rental payment' sense; learners should default to ちんぎん.
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.
ちんきん

Kanji

賃fare, fee, hire
金gold
銀silver

Similar words

給きゅう料りょう
給料 typically refers to a fixed monthly salary, while 賃金 is broader and often used for hourly or daily wages, especially in labor economics.
賃ちん貸たい料りょう
賃貸料 is the modern standard term for 'rental fee', replacing the archaic 賃金 (ちんきん) sense.

Etymology

Compound of 賃 (chin, 'fare, fee, wages') and 金 (kin/gin, 'money'). The reading ちんぎん is a standard rendaku form. The rare reading ちんきん preserves the unvoiced 金 and is associated with an older 'rent' meaning.