坚持不懈

堅持不懈

jiānchí-bùxiè

idiom HSK 7-9 #17,571

Meanings

1 to persevere unremittingly
2 to persist without slacking

Characters

to hold; to maintain

to slack; to relax

Examples

他坚持不懈地学习中文，终于通过了HSK考试。

Tā jiānchíbùxiè de xuéxí Zhōngwén, zhōngyú tōngguò le HSK kǎoshì.

He persevered in studying Chinese and finally passed the HSK exam.

成功需要坚持不懈的努力。

Chénggōng xūyào jiānchíbùxiè de nǔlì.

Success requires unremitting effort.

Tips

memory

坚持 (persist) + 不懈 (without slacking) = persist without ever letting up. 懈 means slack/lax, so 不懈 = never relaxing your effort.

Stroke Order

坚 jiān

持 chí

不 bù

懈 xiè