忍 — Chinese character
忍
rěn
to endure, to bear, to suffer, to tolerate
- Pinyin
- rěn
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 刃 心
- Formation
- ideographic — A knife 刃 piercing the heart 心; 刃 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 忍 as a kanji
Common words with 忍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 忍不住 | rěn bu zhù | cannot help; unable to bear |
| 残忍 (殘忍) | cán rěn | cruel; merciless; ruthless |
| 忍受 | rěn shòu | to bear; to endure |
| 容忍 | róng rěn | to put up with; to tolerate |
| 忍耐 | rěn nài | to endure; to put up with; to exercise patience |
| 不忍 | bù rěn | cannot bear to |
| 忍者 | rěn zhě | ninja |
| 忍无可忍 (忍無可忍) | rěn wú kě rěn | more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience; the last straw |
| 强忍 (強忍) | qiǎng rěn | to resist (with great difficulty) |
| 难以忍受 (難以忍受) | nán yǐ rěn shòu | hard to endure; unbearable |
| 忍心 | rěn xīn | to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task |
| 惨不忍睹 (慘不忍睹) | cǎn bù rěn dǔ | lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious |
English words written with 忍
忍 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 19 · Zhuangzi 8
- Analects 3.1
- Analects 15.26
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.6
- Mencius 4A.1
- Mencius 4B.24
- Mencius 5B.1
- Mencius 6B.15
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