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
Hypernym
  • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
    • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
      • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
        • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME....
See also
  • AFFIRMSPEAK:say something and SPEAK:say that WHAT one SPEAKS:says IS CERTAINLY TRUE.
    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 ／

    Attributions by syntactic funtion

    • vt+V[0] : 20
    • vadV : 5
    • vtoN : 1
    • VPtoS : 1
    • VPi : 1

    Attributions by text

    • 韓非子 : 4
    • 說苑 : 3
    • 孟子 : 3
    • 荀子 : 3
    • 莊子 : 3
    • 淮南子 : 3
    • 禮記 : 2
    • 春秋左傳 : 2
    • 文選 : 1
    • 漢書 : 1
    • 百喻經 : 1
    • 史記 : 1
    • 古列女傳 : 1

    Words

    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: dooɡCH 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadVused adverbially, meaning something like "make a point of, insist"CH
    設  shè OC: qhjed MC: ɕiɛt 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V[0]insist on (doing something)
    無已  wú yǐ OC: ma k-lɯʔ MC: mi̯o jɨ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPiidiomalso 無以. If you insist (on my answer);
    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 ɢʷadLZ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoSinsist on that SLZ
    堅固  jiān gù OC: kiin kaas MC: ken kuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNinsist on; be determined to seek

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