piān zhí

Traditional: 偏執

偏执 (piān zhí) is a Chinese word meaning “extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion; (psychology) paranoid”.

Meanings

  1. 1extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion
  2. 2(psychology) paranoid

Characters in 偏执

偏piān · to lean执zhí · to execute (a plan)

Related words

执行to implement执照license; permit偏to lean执法to enforce a law争执to dispute偏见prejudice固执obstinate偏离to deviate执to execute (a plan)偏偏(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened偏僻remote执政官consul (of the Roman Republic)

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