忍 rěn
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rěn
verb
to bear; to endure; to tolerate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 含容 (Guoyu '忍' v 1; Kroll 2015 '忍' 1, p. 386; Unihan '忍') -
rěn
adverb
willingly
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 願意 (Guoyu '忍' adv 1) -
rěn
adjective
callous; heartless
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 狠心 (Guoyu '忍' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '忍' 2, p. 386)
Contained in
- 残忍(殘忍) merciless; ruthless
- 忍耻(忍恥) to endure humiliation
- 忍辱含垢 to eat humble pie; to accept humiliation; to turn the other cheek
- 忍耐 to show restraint; to exercise patience
- 是可忍也，孰不可忍 if this can be tolerated, what cannot?
- 目不忍见(目不忍見) the eye cannot bear to see it; a scene too pitiful to behold
- 惨不忍闻(慘不忍聞) too horrible to endure; tragic spectacle; appalling scenes of devastation
- 含垢忍辱 to bear shame and humiliation
- 温良忍让(溫良忍讓) submissive; accommodating
- 忍辱 to tolerate insults; to have patience
- 目不忍视(目不忍視) the eye cannot bear to see it; a scene too pitiful to behold
- 强忍悲痛(強忍悲痛) to try hard to suppress one's grief
- 不忍 cannot bear to; disturbed by ; to sympathize with
- 濡忍 compliant; submissive
- 零容忍 zero tolerance
- 忍冬 a honeysuckle
- 常忍久耐 consistently patient
- 忍饥挨饿(忍飢挨餓) starving; famished
- 含忍耻辱(含忍恥辱) to eat humble pie; to accept humiliation; to turn the other cheek
- 忍受 to bear; to endure
- 忍俊 smiling
- 于心不忍(於心不忍) can't bear to
- 忍气吞声(忍氣吞聲) to submit to humiliation; to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it
- 忍辱偷生 to bear humiliation to save one's skin
- 是可忍，孰不可忍 if this can be tolerated, what cannot?
- 强忍(強忍) to compell to bear
- 隐忍(隱忍) to bear patiently; to endure silently; to forbear
- 无法忍受(無法忍受) intolerable
- 忍让(忍讓) to exercise forbearance; patient and accommodating
- 忍心 to have the heart to do something; to steel oneself to a task
- 不堪忍受 unbearable
- 忍者 ninja
- 忍痛割爱(忍痛割愛) to resign oneself to part with what one treasures
- 小不忍则乱大谋(小不忍則亂大謀) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
- 坚忍(堅忍) enduring
- 坚忍不拔(堅忍不拔) fortitude
- 容忍 to tolerate
- 忍不住 cannot help; unable to bear
- 难以忍受(難以忍受) hard to endure; unbearable
- 忍得住 to refrain; to be able to endure it
- 忍俊不禁 cannot help laughing; unable to restrain a smile
- 忍耐力 patience; fortitude
- 忍者龟(忍者龜) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- 爱不忍释(愛不忍釋) to love something too much to part with it
- 忍辱求全 to endure humiliation to preserve unity
- 隐忍不发(隱忍不發) to keep one's emotions inside oneself; to restrain one's emotions
- 忍垢偷生 to bear humiliation to save one's skin
- 惨不忍睹(慘不忍睹) spectacle too horrible to endure; tragic sight; appalling scenes of devastation
- 忍辱负重(忍辱負重) to endure humiliation as part of an important mission; to suffer in silence
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- 卷108之三 禮志四之三 Volume 108c Treatise 4: Rituals 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 14
- 卷八十七 西羌傳 Volume 87: Treatise on the Western Qiang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 9
- 卷一百九十一 列傳第一百四十一: 方伎 Volume 191 Biographies 141: The Arts Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 9
- 卷二百二十二上 列傳第一百四十七上 南蠻上 Volume 222a Biographies 147a: Southern Man 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 8
- 卷二十八 魏書二十八 王毌丘諸葛鄧鍾傳 Volume 28: Book of Wei 28 - Biographies of Wang, Guanqiu, Zhuge, Deng and Zhong Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 7
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 7
- 卷九十八 列傳第六十八 王敦 桓溫 Volume 98 Biographies 68: Wang Dun; Huan Wen Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 7
- 《八佾第三》 Commentary on Ba Yi III Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 6
- 卷89 酷吏:于洛侯 胡泥 李洪之 高遵張赦提 羊祉 崔暹 郦道元 Volume 89: Cruel Officals - Yu Luohou, Hu Ni, Li Hongzhi, Gaozun Zhang Sheti, Yang Zhi, Cui Xian, Li Dao Yun Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 6
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 5
Collocations
- 能忍 (能忍) 弗能忍也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 11
- 不能忍 (不能忍) 先古聖王皆不能忍也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說疑第四十四 Chapter 44: Expressing Doubts — count: 7
- 不可忍 (不可忍) 君不可忍 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 6
- 未忍 (未忍) 未忍加誅 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十九 趙充國辛慶忌傳 Volume 69: Zhao Chongguo and Xin Qingji — count: 6
- 忍人 (忍人) 忍人也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 5
- 子忍 (子忍) 吾子忍之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 4
- 安忍 (安忍) 阻兵而安忍 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
- 忍见 (忍見) 吾豈忍見宓子哉 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 2 — count: 4
- 忍杀 (忍殺) 余不女忍殺 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 忍致 (忍致) 未忍致於理 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十二 王商史丹傅喜傳 Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi — count: 3