HanTrace

毅力

yìlì

“Perseverance” in Chinese is 毅力 (yìlì).

Meaning

  • perseverance
  • willpower

Example

学好一门外语需要坚韧不拔的毅力。

Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

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Not to be confused with: 屹立 (yìlì, to tower)