忍

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 刃 (“knife”) + 心 (“heart”) – suffer being stabbed in the heart with a knife.

Han character

忍 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈心 (SIP), four-corner 1733₂, composition ⿱刃心)

1. endure, bear, suffer
2. forbear

Derived characters

• 認

References

• KangXi: page 376, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10312
• Dae Jaweon: page 702, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2271, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5FCD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

忍 (jyutping jan2, Yale yan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

忍 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: にん (nin)
• Kun: しの (shino)

Compounds

• 忍ばせる (しのばせる, shinobaseru)
• 忍ぶ (しのび, shinobi)
• 忍び逢い (しのびあい, shinobiai)
• 忍び足 (しのびあし, shinobiashi)
• 忍び入る (しのびいる, shinobīru)
• 忍び難い (しのびがたい, shinobigatai)
• 忍び込む (しのびこむ, shinobikomu)
• 忍び声 (しのびごえ, shinobigoe)
• 忍び泣き (しのびなき, shinobinaki)
• 忍び泣く (しのびなく, shinobinaku)
• 忍び音 (しのびね, shinobine)
• 忍びやか (しのびやか, shinobiyaka)
• 忍び寄る (しのびよる, shinobiyoru)
• 忍び笑い (しのびわらい, shinobiwarai)
• 忍苦 (にんく, ninku)
• 忍者 (にんじゃ, ninja)
• 忍従 (にんじゅう, ninjū)
• 忍術 (にんじゅつ, ninjutsu)
• 忍耐 (にんたい, nintai)
• 忍耐強い (にんたいづよい, nintaidzuyoi)
• 忍耐力 (にんたいりょく, nintairyoku)
• 忍法 (にんぽう, nimpō)
• 押忍 (おす, osu)/押忍 (おっす, ossu)
• 恋い忍ぶ (こいしのぶ, koishinobu)
• 堪え忍ぶ (たえしのぶ, taeshinobu)
• 耐え忍ぶ (たえしのぶ, taeshinobu)
• 隠忍 (いんにん, innin)
• 勘忍 (かんにん, kannin)
• 堪忍 (かんにん, kannin)
• 堪忍袋 (かんにんぶくろ, kannimbukuro)
• 堅忍 (けんにん, kennin)
• 堅忍不抜 (けんにんふばつ, kenninfubatsu)
• 残忍 (ざんにん, zannin)

Proper noun

忍 (hiragana しのぶ, romaji Shinobu)

1. A male or female given name
2. A surname.

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Korean

Hanja

忍 (hangeul 인, revised in, McCune-Reischauer in, Yale in)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

忍 (pinyin rěn (ren3), Wade-Giles jen³)

Compounds

• 忍无可忍

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Vietnamese

Han character

忍 (nhẫn, nhịn, những, nhẩn, nhẵn)