韧 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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rèn

strong and pliable

Phonosemantic compound. 韦 represents the meaning and 刃 represents the sound. Simplified form of 韌.

Components

韦 Meaning component

wéi

tanned leather

刃 Sound component

rèn

knife edge

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

韧 (韌)

rèn

strong and pliable, resilient; (Cant.) tough, elastic; annealed; pliable but strong; tough; tenacious

韧 (靭)

rèn

variant of 韌|韧[rèn]

韧 (靱)

rèn

old variant of 韌|韧[rèn]

Most common words with 韧

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	韧带	ligament
	坚韧	tenacious
	韧性	toughness
	柔韧	flexible
	韧	annealed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2745% of movies

2979th most common character in movies

3137th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Traditional	韌
Unicode	U+97E7

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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