忍
rěn HSK5

endure

忍 rěn
restrain verb
to hold back or suppress one's emotions, impulses, or reactions

面对美食的诱惑，他忍了很久才没有动筷子。

miàn​duì měi​shí de yòu​huò, tā rěn le hěn jiǔ cái méi​yǒu dòng kuài​zi.

Facing the temptation of delicious food, he held back for a long time before picking up his chopsticks.

endure expression
to suffer through or tolerate pain, hardship, or unpleasant situations

这点疼痛我还能忍，不用吃药。

zhèi diǎn téng​tòng wǒ hái néng rěn, bù yòng chī​yào.

I can bear this bit of pain; there's no need for medicine.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,127th most common 128.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,036th most common 97.3 per million appears in 41% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.1 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
40.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5FCD

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)