持
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to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 持
- Common rank
- #920
- Unicode
- U+6301
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
support · Heisig RSH #595
fingers + 寺 Buddhist temple
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 持
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相持不下 | at a stalemate; deadlocked; in unrelenting mutual opposition | |
| 持不同政见者 | (political) dissident | |
| 老成持重 | old and wise; experienced and knowledgeable | |
| 共同主持人 | (Tw) (in a research project) co-principal investigator, or co-PI | |
| 持不同政见 | (politically) dissenting; dissident | |
| 持国天 | Dhritarashtra (one of the Four Heavenly Kings) | |
| 持有人 | holder | |
| 主持人 | host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor; (Tw) (research project) princ… | |
| 持平之论 | fair argument; unbiased view | |
| 水土保持 | soil conservation | |
| 持卡人 | cardholder | |
| 维持生活 | to subsist; to eke out a living; to keep body and soul together | |
| 协同主持人 | (Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s) | |
| 倒持太阿 | variant of 倒持泰阿[dao4 chi2 Tai4 e1] | |
| 保持器 | (orthodontics) retainer | |
| 自持 | to control onself; to exercise self-restraint; self-sustaining | |
| 持家 | to housekeep; to run one's household | |
| 把持不定 | indecisive (idiom) | |
| 持有 | to hold (passport, views etc) | |
| 持平 | to stay level (of exchange rate, market share etc); fair; unbiased |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 寺 — compare how they read.