忍 - rěn - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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忍

rěn

Definition

to bear
to endure
to tolerate
to restrain oneself

Character Decomposition

Compounds (2)

polemonium

muddy water

Related words (36)

smiling

honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica

to bear; to endure

to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task

忍痛

rěn tòng

to suffer; (fig.) reluctantly

ninja

to endure; to bear with; to exercise patience; to restrain oneself; patience; endurance

忍耻

rěn chǐ

to endure humiliation

忍让

rěn ràng

to exercise forbearance; patient and accommodating

忍不住

rěn bu zhù

cannot resist; unable to resist; unable to restrain; unable to bear; unbearable; cannot help (doing something); pass the limits of endurance

忍得住

rěn de zhù

to refrain; to be able to endure it

patience; fortitude

cannot help laughing; unable to restrain a smile

忍痛割爱

rěn tòng gē ài

to resign oneself to part with what one treasures

忍辱含垢

rěn rǔ hán gòu

to eat humble pie; to accept humiliation; to turn the other cheek

忍辱求全

rěn rǔ qiú quán

to endure humiliation to preserve unity

starving; famished

cannot bear to; disturbed

persevering

to put up with; to tolerate

强忍

qiáng rěn

to resist (with great difficulty)

残忍

cán rěn

cruel; mean; merciless; ruthless

濡忍

rú rěn

compliant; submissive

隐忍

yǐn rěn

to bear patiently; to endure silently; to forbear

tolerable

zero tolerance

unbearable

can't bear to

see 忍气吞声

to eat humble pie; to accept humiliation; to turn the other cheek

fortitude

intolerable

submissive; accommodating

隐忍不发

yǐn rěn bù fā

to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions

隐忍不言

yǐn rěn bù yán

to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions

难以忍受

nán yǐ rěn shòu

hard to endure; unbearable

Idioms (12)

忍垢偷生

rěn gòu tōu shēng

to bear humiliation to save one's skin (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

忍气吞声

rěn qì tūn shēng

to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it

忍辱偷生

rěn rǔ tōu shēng

to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)

忍辱负重

rěn rǔ fù zhòng

to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom); to suffer in silence

含垢忍辱

hán gòu rěn rǔ

to bear shame and humiliation (idiom)

强忍悲痛

qiáng rěn bēi tòng

to try hard to suppress one's grief (idiom)

惨不忍睹

cǎn bù rěn dǔ

spectacle too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic sight; appalling scenes of devastation

惨不忍闻

cǎn bù rěn wén

too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic spectacle; appalling scenes of devastation

爱不忍释

ài bù rěn shì

to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)

目不忍见

mù bù rěn jiàn

(lit.) the eye cannot bear to see it (idiom); a scene too pitiful to behold

目不忍视

mù bù rěn shì

(lit.) the eye cannot bear to see it (idiom); a scene too pitiful to behold

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