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Kanji Detail for 孜 - "industriousness"
孜
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Meaning
孜 means "industriousness."
Strive - To work hard; to exert effort.
Diligent - Industrious; hardworking.
Assiduous - Persevering; dedicated.
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Origin of 孜
子, which lends the reading shi, beside 攵, a hand holding a stick: the Shuowen glosses the word as working without let-up. 孜々として means doggedly, and outside that phrase the character survives mostly in given names.
How to remember it: Kept at it under the stick 攵 — diligent.
Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com
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Tattoo check: 孜
- Verified meaning: industriousness
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read つとむ)
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 孜
Given names 孜(つとむ)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
industriousness
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
be as diligent as possible
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
used in 孜孜[zi1 zi1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
diligent, hard-working
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
孜孜: Diligent. In classics, also written as 孳.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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