租
Meaning
- to hire
- to rent
- to charter
Example sentence
我想租房。
I'd like to rent a house.
The character 租
租 is 禾, grain, beside 且 — rent once paid in crop. Like 借 it faces both ways: 租房子 can be letting one or taking one. 出租 says which, and it is why a taxi is 出租车.