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tenacious
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingシツ、シュウ
Kun readingと.る
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8

Meanings

  1. tenaciousRtK
  2. grasp
    彼は、自分の意見に固執している。He persists in his opinion.tatoeba
    執筆を継続した。She continued writing.wiki
  3. take hold
  4. take to heart
  1. to take (trouble)
  2. to attend (to business)
  3. to command (army)

Popular Usage

執筆

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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happiness · ten (十) · needle (丨) · stand up (立) · vase · fat man · musashimaru · nine (九) · baseball · drop (丶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1623

Compound words

執筆しっぴつ
writing; authoring
確執かくしつ
discord; antagonism
執行しっこう
execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise
執念しゅうねん
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
執務しつむ
performance of one's official duties
固執こしつ
sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence
執着しゅうちゃく
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation
執るとる
to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)
中執ちゅうしつ
Central Executive Committee
執行部しっこうぶ
(the) executive; administration; leadership
執行猶予しっこうゆうよ
stay of execution; suspended sentence
執行委員しっこういいん
executive committee
愛執あいしゅう
attachment
我執がしゅう
egotism
執権しっけん
regent to the shogunate
執拗しつよう
persistent
妄執もうしゅう
deep-rooted delusion
盲執もうしゅう
deep-rooted delusion
執金鋼しっこんごう
Diamond Holder (Buddhist deity)
執行うとりおこなう
to hold (a ceremony)
執達吏しったつり
bailiff
執拗いしつこい
insistent
執行するしっこうする
to execute; to carry out
執筆するしっぴつする
to write

On Reading Examples

彼は、自説に固執しています。こしつ
He persists in his opinion.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は法律の条文の意味に固執する。
He keeps to the letter of the law.tatoeba
彼は弁護士になれるという希望に執着していた。
He clung to the hope that he could be a lawyer.tatoeba
彼は成功するまでその実験に固執した。
He persisted in the experiment until he was successful.tatoeba
彼は小説の姉妹編を執筆中だ。
He is now writing a sister volume to his novel.tatoeba
執筆期間・執筆時期
Time and period of writingwiki

Stroke Order

11 strokes

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