INSIST    堅持

ACT:do something ALTHOUGH it is DIFFICULT to do this, OR ALTHOUGH ANOTHER is TRYING to HINDER one in doing it.
PERSEVERE
Modern Chinese Criteria
堅持 is the current modern word for insisting. 保持 維持 力持 is intensitive and emphasises persistent strong insistence. 執 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • AFFIRMSPEAK:say something and SPEAK:say that WHAT one SPEAKS:says IS CERTAINLY TRUE.
Hypernym
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • CHANGE　EVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2. (anc: 9/0, child: 18)
  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 211

    • Words (9 items)

    強  qiǎng OC: ɡaŋʔ MC: gi̯ɐŋ
    彊  qiǎng OC: ɡaŋʔ MC: gi̯ɐŋ 13 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadVin a forced manner, with forced unnatural effort
    • vt+V[0]insist on; make every effort to; attempt with all one's force to
    • vt[oN]be engaged in forcing others, insist by force
    • vtt[oN1.]+prep+N2impose N1 by force on N2, rape N2 for sake of N1
    固  gù OC: kaas MC: kuo̝ 7 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadVinsistently, stubbornlyCH
    • vt+V[0]insist to V
    必  bì OC: piɡ MC: pit 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V[0]insist on Ving
    獨  dú MC: duwk OC: dooɡ 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadVused adverbially, meaning something like "make a point of, insist"CH
    居  jū OC: ka MC: ki̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNinsist on; dwell on the idea of; get hung-up on
    必曰  bì yuē MC: pjit hjwot OC: piɡ ɢʷad 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoSinsist on that SLZ
    無已  wú yǐ OC: ma k-lɯʔ MC: mi̯o jɨ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPiidiomalso 無以. If you insist (on my answer);
    設  shè OC: qhjed MC: ɕiɛt 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V[0]insist on (doing something)
    堅固  jiān gù OC: kiin kaas MC: ken kuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNinsist on; be determined to seek