忍
to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,433 U+5FCD
How 忍 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A knife 刃 piercing the heart 心; 刃 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
endure · Heisig RSH #565
刃 blade + 心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 忍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于心不忍 | yú xīn bù rěn | can't bear to |
| 目不忍见 | mù bù rěn jiàn | see 目不忍視|目不忍视[mu4 bu4 ren3 shi4] |
| 不忍心 | bù rěn xīn | can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful) |
| 目不忍视 | mù bù rěn shì | (lit.) the eye cannot bear to see it (idiom); (fig.) pitiful to behold |
| 火影忍者 | Huǒ yǐng Rěn zhě | Naruto, manga and anime series |
| 小不忍则乱大谋 | xiǎo bù rěn zé luàn dà móu | (idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience |
| 隐忍不发 | yǐn rěn bù fā | to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions |
| 难以忍受 | nán yǐ rěn shòu | hard to endure; unbearable |
| 隐忍不言 | yǐn rěn bù yán | to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions |
| 忍不住 | rěn bu zhù | cannot help; unable to bear |
| 不忍 | bù rěn | cannot bear to |
| 忍心 | rěn xīn | to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task |
| 忍得住 | rěn de zhù | to refrain; to be able to endure it |
| 爱不忍释 | ài bù rěn shì | to love sth too much to part with it (idiom) |
| 忍无可忍 | rěn wú kě rěn | more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience; the last straw |
| 忍者 | rěn zhě | ninja |
| 忍者神龟 | Rěn zhě Shén guī | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, vi… |
| 吞声忍气 | tūn shēng rěn qì | see 忍氣吞聲|忍气吞声[ren3 qi4 tun1 sheng1] |
| 忍气吞声 | rěn qì tūn shēng | to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin an… |
| 落忍 | lào rěn | (coll.) (usu. in the negative) to be able to bear (doing sth); to feel it is acceptable; (… |