执
to execute (a plan); to grasp
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,175 U+6267
How 执 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand 扌 clutching a pebble 丸
How to remember it
clench · Heisig RSH #602
fingers + bottle of pills
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 执 as their sound component
These characters all use 执 (zhí) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 执 sound component | zhí | to execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze, to detain |
| 热 | rè | heat, fever, zeal |
| 势 | shì | power, force; tendency, attitude |
| 垫 | diàn | cushion, mat, pad; to advance money, to pay for another |
| 蛰 | zhé | to hibernate |
| 贽 | zhì | tribute; a gift given to a superior |
| 鸷 | zhì | hawk, vulture |
Words containing 执
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城市管理行政执法局 | Chéng shì Guǎn lǐ Xíng zhèng Zhí fǎ jú | City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau (PRC) |
| 执法如山 | zhí fǎ rú shān | to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly |
| 高层执行员 | gāo céng zhí xíng yuán | senior executive |
| 科学执政 | kē xué zhí zhèng | governance based on rationality, evidence and scientific principles |
| 执行人 | zhí xíng rén | executioner (hangman); business executor |
| 执行长 | zhí xíng zhǎng | (Tw) chief executive |
| 执行力 | zhí xíng lì | ability to get things done |
| 执政能力 | zhí zhèng néng lì | governing capacity |
| 可执行 | kě zhí xíng | executable (computing) |
| 争执不下 | zhēng zhí bù xià | to quarrel endlessly |
| 中央执行委员会 | Zhōng yāng Zhí xíng Wěi yuán huì | Central Executive Committee |
| 失信被执行人 | shī xìn bèi zhí xíng rén | (law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a wri… |
| 回执单 | huí zhí dān | receipt |
| 执政者 | zhí zhèng zhě | ruler |
| 监外执行 | jiān wài zhí xíng | to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law) |
| 执政官 | zhí zhèng guān | consul (of the Roman Republic); magistrate (chief administrator) |
| 首席执行官 | shǒu xí zhí xíng guān | chief executive officer (CEO) |
| 执行 | zhí xíng | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run |
| 执牛耳 | zhí niú ěr | to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay th… |
| 执法 | zhí fǎ | to enforce a law; law enforcement |