忍

Meaning

忍 centers on bearing something difficult with inner strength: enduring pain, putting up with hardship, or concealing one's feelings. The spy/sneak senses extend this idea to hiding one's presence or intentions.

• 忍しのぶ

  squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii)

• 忍にん

  endurance; forbearance; patience; self-restraint

• 忍者にんじゃ

  ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

• 忍耐にんたい
  N1

  endurance; perseverance; patience

• 忍びしのび

  stealth

• 残忍ざんにん

  brutal; cruel; merciless; ruthless; cold-blooded

• 忍ぶしのぶ
  N1

  to conceal oneself; to hide

• 忍法にんぽう

  ninja arts

• 忍術にんじゅつ

  ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.

• 忍び寄るしのびよる

  to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed

• 押忍おっす

  hi!; yo!; hey man!; hey dude!

• お忍びおしのび

  travelling incognito (of a person of high rank)

• 忍び込むしのびこむ
  N1

  to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in

• 堪忍袋かんにんぶくろ

  one's store of patience

• 堪忍かんにん

  patience; forbearance; endurance; tolerance

• 耐え忍ぶたえしのぶ

  to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently

• 忍冬すいかずら

  Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)

• 受忍じゅにん

  enduring (hardships, inconveniences, etc.); tolerating; accepting

• ならぬ堪忍するが堪忍ならぬかんにんするがかんにん

  to endure what is unendurable is true endurance

• 上忍じょうにん

  Ninja clan master; highest-ranking ninja

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