持
持 in English
- to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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为什么美国政府让人们持有枪械？
Why does the US government let people have guns?
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人生就像骑单车一样，要保持平衡就得不停地前进。
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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他们坚持让他走。
They insist that he should go.
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他告訴我們要保持安靜。
He told us to keep quiet.
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他的演讲持续了三个小时。
His speech lasted three hours.
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你在东京如何维持生计？
How did you make a living in Tokyo?
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你应该一直让手保持干净。
You must always keep your hands clean.