持 (chí): meaning and stroke order
持 (chí) means to hold, to grasp, to support, to maintain, to persevere, to manage.
持
- Simplified
- 持
- Traditional
- 持 (same form)
- Pinyin
- chí
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Stroke order of 持
持
- chí to hold; to grasp
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 持
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chí
- to hold
- to grasp
- to support
- to maintain
- to persevere
- to manage
- to run (i.e. administer)
- to control
Radical and structure
- 持
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 寺 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 持
- 坚持 jiān chí to persevere with; to persist in
- 主持人 zhǔ chí rén host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor; (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director
- 主持 zhǔ chí to take charge of; to manage or direct
- 支持 zhī chí to be in favor of; to support
- 坚持不懈 jiān chí bù xiè (idiom) to persevere unremittingly; to keep going until the end
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).