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根気 (こんき, konki) Japanese meaning: patience | Kotomora
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難むずか
しい
パズル
に
取と
り
組く
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だ
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He patiently worked on the difficult puzzle.
This task requires perseverance.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 に 根こん 気き がいる something requires patience/perseverance
This task requires a lot of patience.
根こん 気き がある to have patience/perseverance
He has the perseverance to see things through to the end.
根こん 気き が 続つづ かない one's patience doesn't last
My patience ran out and I gave up halfway through.
根こん 気き を 養やしな う to build up one's patience/perseverance
It's important to cultivate patience from childhood.
Kanji 根 root, radical, head (pimple) Related words· 6 忍耐 focuses on enduring hardship or suffering without complaint, while 根気 emphasizes the sustained mental effort needed to keep working at a task.
我慢 means tolerating an unpleasant situation or suppressing one's desires, whereas 根気 is about persistent effort directed toward completing a goal.
辛抱 is a more colloquial word for patiently enduring a difficult or trying situation, while 根気 stresses the stamina to keep at a tedious task.
根気 refers to patience and perseverance sustained over a long period, while 粘り emphasizes clinging to a specific task or situation without giving up.
Show 2 more 根気 is the patience and persistence needed to stick with a long, tedious task, while 気力 is the inner drive or mental energy to start or keep going at all.
根気 is steady, patient perseverance in ordinary tasks, while 執念 carries a more intense, sometimes obsessive fixation on a single goal.
Word family patiently; with perseverance
laborious task; work requiring patience
being outpersevered; losing a battle of endurance
Etymology Compound of 根 (root, source, stamina) and 気 (spirit, mind). The combination suggests a deep-seated mental energy or staying power.
