(chí) - to hold, to maintain (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
chíTraditional: 持
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Translation
to hold, to maintain (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of grasping or holding, and 寺 (sì) supplies the sound, giving the sense to hold or maintain.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + 寺 (sì, phonetic)
Stroke order
持
Examples
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Please stay calm.
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I'll always support you.
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He stuck to his view.
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He persists in reading every day.
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Please support my decision.
持 (chí) carries the sense of holding or keeping. It rarely stands alone but powers 保持 (to maintain), 支持 (to support), and 坚持 (to persist), all built around the idea of not letting go.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 持.
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