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堅忍持久 (けんにんじきゅう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

堅けん忍にん持じ久きゅう

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ん

に

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きゅ

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Meanings

1

noun

dogged perseverance; untiring patience

A somewhat formal or literary noun describing the quality of enduring hardship with unwavering determination and patience.

彼かれの堅けん忍にん持じ久きゅうの精せい神しんが、ついに難なん事じ業ぎょうを成せい功こうさせた。
His spirit of dogged perseverance finally brought the difficult project to success.
この仕

し

事ごと

に

は

堅けん

忍にん

持じ

久きゅう

が

求もと

め

られる

。

This job requires untiring patience.

Kanji

堅strict, hard, solid
忍endure, bear, put up with
持hold, have
久long time, old story

Similar words

忍にん耐たい
忍耐 is a more common word for patience or endurance, while 堅忍持久 is a stronger, more literary compound emphasizing unyielding perseverance.
根こん気き
根気 refers to patience and persistence in a more everyday sense, whereas 堅忍持久 carries a heavier, more formal tone of enduring hardship.

Etymology

A yojijukugo (four-character compound) combining 堅忍 (firm endurance) and 持久 (persistence). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it follows a common pattern of pairing synonymous or complementary two-character words to create an emphatic expression.