Chinese Character Wiki
忍

rěn

endure

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 刃 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

刃 sound component

刃  Sound component

rèn

  

knife edge

Evolution

忍 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
忍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
忍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
忍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

忍  

rěn

endure, bear, suffer; forbear; to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself

Most common words with 忍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

忍

to bear

忍受

to bear

忍不住

cannot help

残忍

cruel

容忍

to put up with

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

認

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nə[n]ʔ

nyinX

rěn

cruel

*nə[n]ʔ

nyinX

rěn

endure


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 40.6535% of movies

1036th most common character in movies

1127th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5FCD

Shuowen

“忍，能也。从心，刃聲。”


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