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持

持

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

持 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手土木戈 (QGDI), four-corner 54041, composition ⿰扌寺)

  1. sustain, support
  2. patron
  3. hold, grasp

References

  • KangXi: page 429, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12019
  • Dae Jaweon: page 778, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1866, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6301

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 持

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (寺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
等 *tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ
待 *dɯːʔ
寺 *ljɯs
持 *l'ɯ
峙 *dɯʔ
痔 *dɯʔ
跱 *dɯʔ
歭 *dɯʔ
洔 *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ
畤 *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ
秲 *dɯʔ, *djɯs
庤 *dɯʔ
時 *djɯ
鰣 *djɯ
塒 *djɯ
蒔 *djɯ, *djɯs
榯 *djɯ
恃 *djɯʔ
侍 *djɯs
詩 *hljɯ
邿 *hljɯ
特 *dɯːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 持
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiə/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 持
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dri ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]rə/
English grasp, hold

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 持
Reading # 1/1
No. 12031
Phonetic
component		 寺
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 治
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯ/

Definitions

持

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

持

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. hold, have

Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

持 • ‎(ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

持 (trì, chày, chiì, ghiì, giầy, trầy, chì, ghì, nghỉ, trờ)

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