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 Attributions
      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 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadVinsistently, stubbornlyCH
    • vt+V[0]insist to V
    必  bì OC: piɡ MC: pit 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V[0]insist on Ving
    獨  dú MC: duwk OC: dooɡ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadVused adverbially, meaning something like "make a point of, insist"CH
    設  shè OC: qhjed MC: ɕiɛt 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V[0]insist on (doing something)
    無已  wú yǐ OC: ma k-lɯʔ MC: mi̯o jɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPiidiomalso 無以. If you insist (on my answer);
    居  jū OC: ka MC: ki̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNinsist on; dwell on the idea of; get hung-up on
    必曰  bì yuē MC: pjit hjwot OC: piɡ ɢʷad 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoSinsist on that SLZ
    堅固  jiān gù OC: kiin kaas MC: ken kuo̝ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNinsist on; be determined to seek