Medoru
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忍
JLPT N1 7 strokes Frequency: #1700

Meanings

Endure, Bear, Put Up With, Conceal, Secrete, Spy, Sneak

Radicals

心

Decomposition

⿱刃心

Etymology

Ideographic: A knife 刃 piercing the heart 心; 刃 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
2 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
4 dot bottom-to-top
5 hook bottom-to-top
6 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ニン nin
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
しの shino

Words Using This Kanji

86 words total
Other (20 words)
忍び刀 しのびがたな

ninja sword

忍刀 にんとう

Ninja sword

残忍酷薄 ざんにんこくはく

cruel

隠忍自重 いんにんじちょう

(behaving with) patience and prudence

残忍非道 ざんにんひどう

cruel and inhuman

堅忍持久 けんにんじきゅう

dogged perseverance

残忍冷酷 ざんにんれいこく

atrocious and cold-blooded

残忍非情 ざんにんひじょう

utterly callous

忍冬 スイカズラ

Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)

行者忍辱 ぎょうじゃにんにく

Alpine leek (Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum)

忍 にん

endurance

人目を忍ぶ ひとめをしのぶ

to avoid being seen

忍びない しのびない

cannot bear (doing)

軒忍 のきしのぶ

weeping fern (Lepisorus thunbergianus)

忍辱 にんにく

forbearance (in the face of difficulty, persecution, etc.)

忍びの者 しのびのもの

ninja

忍びの術 しのびのじゅつ

art of stealth (i.e. ninjutsu)

お忍び おしのび

travelling incognito (of a person of high rank)

忍び忍び しのびしのび

stealthily

忍び忍び しのびしのび

stealthily

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