忍辱

Chinese

		to bear; to endure; to tolerate	disgrace; insult
trad. (忍辱)		忍	辱
simp. #(忍辱)		忍	辱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rěnrǔ, rěnrù

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˇ ㄖㄨˇ, ㄖㄣˇ ㄖㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan² juk⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): jím-jio̍k / lím-lio̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rěnrǔ [Phonetic: rénrǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˇ ㄖㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rěnrǔ
    • Wade–Giles: jên³-ju³
    • Yale: rěn-rǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: reenruu
    • Palladius: жэньжу (žɛnʹžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rěnrù
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˇ ㄖㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rěnrù
    • Wade–Giles: jên³-ju⁴
    • Yale: rěn-rù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: reenruh
    • Palladius: жэньжу (žɛnʹžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan² juk⁶
    • Yale: yán yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan² juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen² yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn³⁵ jʊk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jím-jio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: jím-jio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jymjiok
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zim⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ziɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lím-lio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lím-lio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lymliok
    • IPA (Taipei): /lim⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɔk̚⁴/

Verb

忍辱

1. (literary) to endure humiliation

   韓信忍辱／韩信忍辱  ―  Hán Xìn rěnrǔ  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• 含垢忍辱
• 含羞忍辱
• 忍辱偷生 (rěnrǔtōushēng)
• 忍辱含垢
• 忍辱含羞
• 忍辱求全
• 忍辱負重／忍辱负重 (rěnrǔfùzhòng)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (忍辱):

• → Japanese: 忍辱(にんにく) (ninniku)
• → Korean: 인욕(忍辱) (inyok)
• → Vietnamese: nhẫn nhục (忍辱)

→? Japanese: 蒜(にんにく) (ninniku)

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) にんにく [nìńníkú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ĩɲ̟ɲ̟ikɯ̟ᵝ]

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
忍	辱
にん Grade: S	にく Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese 忍辱 (MC nyinX nyowk), in turn a translation of Sanskrit क्षान्ति (kṣānti, “patience, forbearance, forgiveness”).

First cited to the early 800s.

Noun

忍(にん)辱(にく) • (ninniku) 

1. [from early 800s] (Buddhism) kshanti: patience, forbearance and forgiveness: one of the paramitas in Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism

   Synonym: (more generally, not tied to Buddhism) 忍耐 (nintai)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
忍	辱
にん Grade: S	にく Grade: S
goon

Alternative spellings
蒜 大蒜 葫

Uncertain. See the main entry for more.

For pronunciation and definitions of 忍辱 – see the following entry.

【蒜にんにく】H [noun] [date uncertain] garlic Alternative spellings 大蒜, 葫, ニンニク

(This term, 忍辱, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)