執 Kanji – tenacious
The Japanese kanji 執 can mean tenacious, take hold, grasp, take to heart.
Meaning and Readings
How is 執 read?
執 has the onyomi readings シツ, シュウ and the kunyomi reading とる.
In romaji, these readings can be written as shitsu, shuu, toru.
Common Japanese Words Using 執
These common Japanese words contain 執. Select linked kanji to explore their meanings and readings.
- 執拗い（しつこい） — insistent, obstinate, persistent, tenacious
- 確執（かくしつ） — discord, antagonism
- 執行（しっこう） — execution, carrying out, performance, enforcement, exercise, service, conduct
- 執行猶予（しっこうゆうよ） — stay of execution, suspended sentence
- 執念（しゅうねん） — tenacity, persistence, obsession, implacability
- 執筆（しっぴつ） — writing, authoring
- 執務（しつむ） — performance of one's official duties
- 固執（こしつ） — sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.), clinging to, adherence, persistence, insistence
- 執着（しゅうちゃく） — attachment, adhesion, insistence, tenacity, fixation, obsession, clinging (e.g. to old customs)
- 執る（とる） — to take (trouble), to attend (to business), to command (army)