執

Meaning

執 centers on holding firmly, whether physically grasping something or mentally clinging to an idea or feeling. The meanings 'tenacious', 'take hold', 'grasp', and 'take to heart' all express this idea of persistent, determined holding.

• 執行しっこう
  N1

  execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise; service; conduct

• 執拗いしつこい
  N3

  insistent; obstinate; persistent; tenacious

• 執筆しっぴつ
  N2

  writing; authoring

• 執事しつじ

  steward; butler

• 執着しゅうちゃく
  N1

  attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession; clinging (e.g. to old customs)

• 執拗しつよう

  persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate; persevering; stubborn

• 固執こしつ
  N1

  sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence

• 執念しゅうねん
  N1

  tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

• 確執かくしつ

  discord; antagonism

• 執務しつむ

  performance of one's official duties

• 執るとる
  N1

  to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)

• 執政しっせい

  administration; government; administrator; chief executive

• 執刀しっとう

  performing a surgical operation

• 執着心しゅうちゃくしん

  attachment (to); tenacity of purpose

• 執行官しっこうかん

  court executive; sheriff; bailiff

• 執心しゅうしん

  devotion; attachment; infatuation

• 執しゅう

  attachment; obsession; persistence

• 偏執へんしゅう

  bias; eccentricity; obstinacy

• 執り行うとりおこなう

  to hold (a ceremony); to perform

• 妄執もうしゅう

  deep-rooted delusion; firm conviction (based on incorrect beliefs)

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