執拗

しつよう

persistent, obstinate, tenacious, relentless, insistent, importunate, persevering, stubborn

拗音

ようおん

palatalised sound (e.g. japanese morae with small kana)

執

しゅう

attachment, obsession, persistence

執念い

しゅうねい

stubborn, persistent

拗れる

こじれる

to get complicated, to grow worse, to turn sour

拗ね者

すねもの

perverse individual, cynic, misanthrope

拗ねる

すねる

to be peevish, to sulk, to pout

拗ける

ねじける

to curve, to twist, to be rebellious

拗らす

こじらす

to make worse (e.g. disease), to aggravate, to complicate

開拗音

contracted sound

執着

しゅうちゃく しゅうじゃく しゅうじゃく、しゅうちゃく

attachment, adhesion, tenacity, fixation, obsession

執筆

しっぴつ

writing (e.g. as a profession)

執事

しつじ

steward, butler

執行

しっこう しゅぎょう しゅうぎょう しぎょう

lead monk performing various tasks in a temple

執念

しゅうねん

tenacity, implacability

我執

がしゅう

egotism, obstinacy

執心

しゅうしん

devotion, attachment, infatuation

執政

しっせい

administration, government, administrator, governor

執権

しっけん

regent to the shogunate