Chinese symbol for “insist”
咬定
yǎo dìng
to insist; to maintain that ...
The closest CC-CEDICT match for insist is 咬定 (yǎo dìng), defined as: to insist; to maintain that ....
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “insist”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 磨 | mó | to rub; to grind |
| 坚称 (堅稱) | jiān chēng | to claim; to insist |
| 愣说 (愣說) | lèng shuō | (coll.) to insist; to allege; to assert |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 咬定.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咬伤 (咬傷) | yǎo shāng | bite (e.g. snake bite, mosquito bite) |
| 咬牙 | yǎo yá | to clench one's teeth; to grind the teeth |
| 咬牙切齿 (咬牙切齒) | yǎo yá qiè chǐ | (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage |
| 咬紧牙关 (咬緊牙關) | yǎo jǐn yá guān | (idiom) to grit one's teeth tightly; (idiom) (fig.) to endure pain or suffering; to bite the bullet |
| 叮咬 | dīng yǎo | (of a mosquito etc) to bite |
| 一口咬定 | yī kǒu yǎo dìng | to arbitrarily assert; to allege |
| 决定 (決定) | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (个 (gè),项 (xiàng)) |
| 一定 | yī dìng | surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled |
See also: Japanese symbol for “insist”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.