忍
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to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 心 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 忍
- Common rank
- #1,433
- Unicode
- U+5FCD
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Formation & memory
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Words with 忍
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于心不忍 | can't bear to | |
| 目不忍见 | see 目不忍視|目不忍视[mu4 bu4 ren3 shi4] | |
| 不忍心 | can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful) | |
| 目不忍视 | (lit.) the eye cannot bear to see it (idiom); (fig.) pitiful to behold | |
| 火影忍者 | Naruto, manga and anime series | |
| 小不忍则乱大谋 | (idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience | |
| 隐忍不发 | to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions | |
| 难以忍受 | hard to endure; unbearable | |
| 隐忍不言 | to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions | |
| 忍不住 | cannot help; unable to bear | |
| 不忍 | cannot bear to | |
| 忍心 | to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task | |
| 忍得住 | to refrain; to be able to endure it | |
| 爱不忍释 | to love sth too much to part with it (idiom) | |
| 忍无可忍 | more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience; the last straw | |
| 忍者 | ninja | |
| 忍者神龟 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, vi… | |
| 吞声忍气 | see 忍氣吞聲|忍气吞声[ren3 qi4 tun1 sheng1] | |
| 忍气吞声 | to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin an… | |
| 落忍 | (coll.) (usu. in the negative) to be able to bear (doing sth); to feel it is acceptable; (… |