委任状

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 委任状, read いにんじょう, combines 委任, entrusting a task, with 状, a document.
• Basic usage: It is used for a document expressing that a representative is authorized to handle a procedure.
  • 代理人に手続きを頼むため委任状を書いた。

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Authorization and its document
  • 委任 is the act of entrusting a task to another person, while 委任状 is the document recording that authorization.