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执

zhí

HSK 5 Character Traditional 執

What 执 means

1. to execute (a plan)
2. to grasp

Example sentences

• 她很固执。
  Tā hěn gùzhí.
  She's very obstinate.
• 计划被执行了。
  The plan was carried out.
• 计画正常执行。
  It's working just fine.
• 你是执业医师吗？
  Nǐ shì zhíyè yīshī ma?
  Are you a practicing physician?
• 你有驾驶执照吗？
  Do you have a driver's license?
• 我想结束这场争执。
  Wǒ xiǎng jiéshù zhè chǎng zhēngzhí.
  I want to put an end to the quarrel.

Words starting with 执

• 执行zhí xíngto implement; to carry out; to execute
• 执照zhí zhàolicense; permit
• 执着zhí zhuódedicated; devoted; persistent; to persist in; to cling to; (Buddhism) attachment
• 执法zhí fǎto enforce a law; law enforcement
• 执政zhí zhèngto hold power; in office
• 执意zhí yìto be determined to; to insist on
• 执教zhí jiàoto teach; to be a teacher; to train
• 执导zhí dǎoto direct (a film, play etc)
• 执业zhí yèto work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer); practitioner; professional
• 执政党zhí zhèng dǎngruling party; the party in power
• 执笔zhí bǐto write; to do the actual writing
• 执勤zhí qínto be on duty (of a security guard etc)
• 执拗zhí niùstubborn; willful; pigheaded; Taiwan pr. zhí ào
• 执掌zhí zhǎngto wield (power etc)
• 执事zhí shìto perform one's job; attendant; job
• 执迷不悟zhí mí bù wùto obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
• 执委zhí wěiexecutive committee member (abbr. for 执行委员
• 执委会zhí wěi huìexecutive committee (abbr. for 执行委员会
• 执政者zhí zhèng zhěruler
• 执行人zhí xíng rénexecutioner (hangman); business executor
• 执行力zhí xíng lìability to get things done
• 执行长zhí xíng zhǎng(Taiwan) chief executive
• 执政能力zhí zhèng néng lìgoverning capacity
• 执政官zhí zhèng guānconsul (of the Roman Republic); magistrate (chief administrator)

Words containing 执

• 固执gù zhíobstinate; stubborn; to fixate on
• 争执zhēng zhíto dispute; to disagree; to argue opinionatedly
• 偏执piān zhíextreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion; (psychology) paranoid
• 回执huí zhíreceipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
• 可执行kě zhí xíngexecutable (computing)
• 各执所见gè zhí suǒ jiàneach sticks to his own view
• 科学执政kē xué zhí zhènggovernance based on rationality, evidence and scientific principles
• 被执行人bèi zhí xíng rén(law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement…
• 回执单huí zhí dānreceipt
• 各执己见gè zhí jǐ jiàneach sticks to his own view (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
• 监外执行jiān wài zhí xíngto serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
• 失信被执行人shī xìn bèi zhí xíng rén(law) judgement defaulter…
• 首席执行官shǒu xí zhí xíng guānchief executive officer (CEO)
• 争执不下zhēng zhí bù xiàto quarrel endlessly
• 高层执行员gāo céng zhí xíng yuánsenior executive
• 父执fù zhí(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
• 坚执jiān zhíto persist; to continue upholding; to persevere
• 解释执行jiě shì zhí xínginterpreted (computer)
• 固执己见gù zhí jǐ jiànto persist in one's views
• 择善固执zé shàn gù zhíto choose what is good and hold fast to it (idiom)
• 死刑缓期执行sǐ xíng huǎn qī zhí xíngdeferred death sentence; abbr. to 死缓
• 拘执jū zhírigid; inflexible
• 偏执型piān zhí xíngparanoid (psych.)
• 偏执狂piān zhí kuángparanoia; monomania

Characters that look like 执

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 拟nǐdoubtful; suspicious; variant of 拟
• 批pīto ascertain; to act on; to criticize
• 抗kàngto resist; to fight; to defy
• 轨guǐ(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 抉juéto pick out; to single out
• 纨wán(literary) fine white silk; delicate silk fabric

Sounds the same

Read zhí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 职office; duty
• 值value; (to be) worth; to happen to
• 植to plant
• 直straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable
• 殖to grow; to reproduce
• 侄brother's son; nephew
• 跖metatarsus; (literary) sole of the foot; (literary) to tread on
• 踯used in 踯躅
• 埴soil with large clay content
• 秷sound of reaping
• 摭pick up; to select
• 稙early-planted crop