忍

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

• 𠗋, 𠴍, 𡝖, 𢂻, 𢚴, 𢭝, 涊, 𭸑, 梕, 𤉃, 㸾, 䏰, 𥚆, 𥆾, 𫀷, 𪞹, 𪪄, 綛, 𦓖, 𦖆, 𬠍, 𧖷, 認, 躵, 𨧟, 𨲅, 𢠗, 𩈢, 𩊫, 𥊟, 𪐁
• 𫻉, 荵, 𭞂, 𩇻, 𤶝

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

• Unihan data for U+2F89D

Historical forms of the character 忍
Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njɯnʔ) : phonetic 刃 (OC *njɯns, “blade”) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

“to bear, to endure, to suffer”

From Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan ཉན་པ (nyan pa, “to be able”) (Schuessler (2007))

“cruel”

From Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan གཉན་པ (gnyan pa, “cruel, fierce, severe”) (ibid.).

忍

1. to endure; to bear; to suffer

   • 人皆有所不忍，達之於其所忍，仁也。人皆有所不為，達之於其所為，義也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     人皆有所不忍，达之于其所忍，仁也。人皆有所不为，达之于其所为，义也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Rén jiē yǒu suǒbùrěn, dá zhī yú qí suǒrěn, rén yě. Rén jiē yǒu suǒbùwéi, dá zhī yú qí suǒwéi, yì yě.

     All men have some things which they cannot bear; extend that feeling to what they can bear, and humaneness will be the result. All men have some things which they will not do; extend that feeling to the things which they do, and righteousness will be the result.

2. to forbear

   忍笑  ―  rěn xiào  ―  to stifle a laugh

   忍著眼淚／忍着眼泪  ―  rěn zhe yǎnlèi  ―  to hold back tears

   • 子曰：「巧言亂德，小不忍則亂大謀。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「巧言乱德，小不忍则乱大谋。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐyuē: “Qiǎoyán luàn dé, xiǎobùrěn zé luàn dàmóu.”

     The Master said, "Crafty words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans."

3. to have the heart to; to be hardhearted enough to
4. (literary) cruel; callous

   • 維此良人、弗求弗迪。
     維彼忍心、是顧是復。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     维此良人、弗求弗迪。
     维彼忍心、是顾是复。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wéi cǐ liángrén, fúqiú fúdí.
     Wéi bǐ rěnxīn, shìgù shìfù.

     Here is a good man, but he is not sought out nor employed.
     There is a cruel-hearted man, and he is thought of and promoted once and again.

• (to endure):

• (to have the heart to): 忍心 (rěnxīn)
• (cruel):

• → Vietnamese: nhịn

• “忍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	忍
Kyūjitai	忍󠄁 忍+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	忍󠄄 忍+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. patience, endurance, stamina.

• Go-on: にん (nin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kun: しのぶ (shinobu, 忍ぶ, Jōyō); しのばせる (shinobaseru, 忍ばせる, Jōyō)
• Nanori: おし (oshi); しの (shino); しのぶ (shinobu); たう (tau); たふ (tafu)

忍(しのぶ) • (Shinobu) 

1. a unisex given name
2. a surname

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• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

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忍

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忍 (eumhun 참다 인 (chamda in))

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忍: Hán Nôm readings: nhẫn, nhịn, những, nhẩn, nhẵn

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