執
performing a task; tenacity
Kanji 1332
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With the take-charge kanji 執, you can conduct orchestras, manage corporations, perform surgery, and command armies. Passions run hot with 執, which drives words for "antagonism," "obsession," and "stubborn," appearing in sentences that mean "That team won through tenacity rather than technique," "He still sticks to his opinion," and "He clung to the hope that he could be a lawyer.”
Revision history:
Mar. 22, 2024: p. 8: In the sample sentence about a kanji obsession, I have now defined the dictionary form のめり込む, rather than the present-progressive form.
Mar. 8, 2024: Originally published.
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