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There are 22 total results for your persevere search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

頑張る

see styles
 ganbaru
    がんばる

More info & calligraphy:

Fortitude / Steadfast
(ateji / phonetic) (v5r,vi) (1) to persevere; to persist; to keep at it; to hang on; to hold out; to do one's best; (2) to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); (3) to remain in a place; to stick to one's post; to refuse to budge

有志竟成

see styles
yǒu zhì jìng chéng
    you3 zhi4 jing4 cheng2
yu chih ching ch`eng
    yu chih ching cheng
persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way

磨杵成針


磨杵成针

see styles
mó chǔ chéng zhēn
    mo2 chu3 cheng2 zhen1
mo ch`u ch`eng chen
    mo chu cheng chen
to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently

see styles
chí
    chi2
ch`ih
    chih
 ji
    じ
to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie; (surname) Mochitoku
dhṛ; dhara. Lay hold of, grasp, hold, maintain, keep; control.

堅執


坚执

see styles
jiān zhí
    jian1 zhi2
chien chih
 kenshū
to persist; to continue upholding; to persevere; to stick to something; stubborn
rigid attachment

堅持


坚持

see styles
jiān chí
    jian1 chi2
chien ch`ih
    chien chih
 kenji
    けんじ
to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
(noun, transitive verb) holding on to; sticking to; (surname) Kenmochi
maintain firmly

有恆


有恒

see styles
yǒu héng
    you3 heng2
yu heng
to persevere; perseverance

粘る

see styles
 nebaru
    ねばる
(v5r,vi) (1) to be sticky; to be adhesive; (v5r,vi) (2) to persevere; to persist; to stick to; to hold out; to linger

自勉

see styles
zì miǎn
    zi4 mian3
tzu mien
 jiben
to encourage oneself
to persevere on one's own initiative

堅持不懈


坚持不懈

see styles
jiān chí bù xiè
    jian1 chi2 bu4 xie4
chien ch`ih pu hsieh
    chien chih pu hsieh
to persevere unremittingly (idiom); to keep going until the end

堅持不渝


坚持不渝

see styles
jiān chí bù yú
    jian1 chi2 bu4 yu2
chien ch`ih pu yü
    chien chih pu yü
to stick to something without change (idiom); to persevere

持之以恆


持之以恒

see styles
chí zhī yǐ héng
    chi2 zhi1 yi3 heng2
ch`ih chih i heng
    chih chih i heng
to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere

磨穿鐵硯


磨穿铁砚

see styles
mó chuān tiě yàn
    mo2 chuan1 tie3 yan4
mo ch`uan t`ieh yen
    mo chuan tieh yen
to grind one's way through an ink stone; to persevere in a difficult task (idiom); to study diligently (idiom)

鍥而不捨


锲而不舍

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qiè ér bù shě
    qie4 er2 bu4 she3
ch`ieh erh pu she
    chieh erh pu she
to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at something; to persevere; unflagging efforts

根をつめる

see styles
 konotsumeru
    こんをつめる
(exp,v1) to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)

根を詰める

see styles
 konotsumeru
    こんをつめる
(exp,v1) to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)

不到黃河心不死


不到黄河心不死

see styles
bù dào huáng hé xīn bù sǐ
    bu4 dao4 huang2 he2 xin1 bu4 si3
pu tao huang ho hsin pu ssu
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom); fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal; to keep going while some hope is left

三天打魚,兩天曬網


三天打鱼,两天晒网

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sān tiān dǎ yú , liǎng tiān shài wǎng
    san1 tian1 da3 yu2 , liang3 tian1 shai4 wang3
san t`ien ta yü , liang t`ien shai wang
    san tien ta yü , liang tien shai wang
lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb); fig. not to persevere in doing something; to do something by fits and starts

Variations:
根詰める
根つめる

see styles
 kontsumeru
    こんつめる
(exp,v1) (See 根を詰める) to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)

頑張る(ateji)

see styles
 ganbaru
    がんばる
(v5r,vi) (1) to persevere; to persist; to keep at it; to hang on; to hold out; to do one's best; (v5r,vi) (2) to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); (v5r,vi) (3) to remain in a place; to stick to one's post; to refuse to budge

只要功夫深,鐵杵磨成針


只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针

see styles
zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn , tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn
    zhi3 yao4 gong1 fu5 shen1 , tie3 chu3 mo2 cheng2 zhen1
chih yao kung fu shen , t`ieh ch`u mo ch`eng chen
    chih yao kung fu shen , tieh chu mo cheng chen
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.; cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently

Variations:
根を詰める
根をつめる

see styles
 konotsumeru
    こんをつめる
(exp,v1) (See 根・こん・1) to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 22 results for "persevere" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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