Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 執着する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 執しゅう 着ちゃく する 執しゅう 着ちゃく しない Polite 執しゅう 着ちゃく します 執しゅう 着ちゃく しません Past polite 執しゅう 着ちゃく しました 執しゅう 着ちゃく しませんでした Past 執しゅう 着ちゃく した 執しゅう 着ちゃく しなかった Te-form 執しゅう 着ちゃく して 執しゅう 着ちゃく しないで Desire 執しゅう 着ちゃく したい 執しゅう 着ちゃく したくない Potential 執しゅう 着ちゃく できる 執しゅう 着ちゃく できない Passive 執しゅう 着ちゃく される 執しゅう 着ちゃく されない Causative 執しゅう 着ちゃく させる 執しゅう 着ちゃく させない Causative passive 執しゅう 着ちゃく させられる 執しゅう 着ちゃく させられない Volitional 執しゅう 着ちゃく しよう Polite volitional 執しゅう 着ちゃく しましょう Imperative 執しゅう 着ちゃく しろ 執しゅう 着ちゃく するな Conditional 執しゅう 着ちゃく すれば 執しゅう 着ちゃく しなければ Tara conditional 執しゅう 着ちゃく したら 執しゅう 着ちゃく しなかったら
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 に 執しゅう 着ちゃく する to be obsessively attached to/fixated on〈something〉
He is obsessed with money.
執しゅう 着ちゃく を 捨す てる to let go of one's attachment/fixation
It's important to let go of your attachment to the past.
執しゅう 着ちゃく が 強つよ い to have a strong attachment/fixation
She has a strong fixation on brand-name goods.
〈 事こと 〉 に 執しゅう 着ちゃく する to fixate on〈a matter/idea〉
He is fixated on his past failures.
Kanji 執 tenacious, take hold, grasp 著 renowned, publish, write Related words· 10 こだわり can be a positive commitment to quality or detail, while 執着 usually carries a negative sense of unhealthy fixation.
固執 means stubbornly sticking to one's own opinion or method, while 執着 refers to emotional attachment to things, people, or ideas.
愛着 is a warm, fond attachment (e.g. to an old belonging), whereas 執着 implies an obsessive inability to let go, often negatively.
未練 is lingering regret or reluctance to give something up, while 執着 is the broader, ongoing state of being fixated on it.
Show 6 more Show fewer 取 is the specific ninth-link term in Buddhist Dependent Origination for clinging to objects of desire, while 執着 is the broader everyday and doctrinal word for attachment or obsession in general.
執着 is an emotional attachment or clinging to something, while 執念 is the resulting tenacious, often obsessive drive to achieve or overcome it.
執着 means 'attachment' or 'clinging' to a particular thing, while 煩悩 is the broader Buddhist category of afflictive mental states that includes such attachment.
執着する is a more formal, often psychological term for being unable to let go of something, whereas 拘る is the everyday word for fussing over details.
執着 conveys a clinging, sometimes obsessive attachment that is hard to let go of, while 思い入れ is a warmer, more positive term for caring deeply.
執着 describes a strong, often obsessive attachment to something, while 独占欲 specifically emphasizes the desire to exclude others from sharing it.
Don't confuse with 執着 means an emotional or psychological attachment/obsession, while 粘着 refers to physical stickiness (though it is sometimes used slangily for obsessive online clinging, which can blur with 執着 ).
執着 ends in the same ちゃく sound as 決着 but means 'attachment' or 'obsession', a very different concept from reaching a resolution.
Written forms 執着 Usage 98% i Usage for this spelling across all readings, not one reading alone.
執著 Usage 2% i Usage for this spelling across all readings, not one reading alone.
rarely-used kanji form
しゅうじゃく
Etymology From Middle Chinese 執著 (tsip-trjoH), meaning 'to cling to, to be attached to'. The second character was later replaced with 着 in Japanese usage.
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