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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chí - to hold
- to grasp
- to support
- to maintain
- to persevere
- to manage
- to run (i.e. administer)
- to control

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 7 5,347 1,626 3,274

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
保持 5 3 628 661 1,038
支持 4 3 811 283 221
坚持 4 3 870 424 634
持续 5 3 2,614 885 2,118
维持 6 4 2,975 2,053 4,363
主持 5 3 3,589 2,769 4,250
主持人 - 6 4,207 1,914 3,365
- 7 5,347 1,626 3,274
持有 - 6 5,743 2,339 8,822
劫持 - 7 6,022 13,933 22,023
持枪 - - 6,168 16,214 17,075
支持者 - - 8,914 11,629 20,586
持久 6 8 10,344 7,535 6,580
挟持 - 8 12,079 26,342 34,665
持械 - - 12,278 - -
扶持 - 8 16,901 4,856 12,397
坚持不懈 - 9 17,571 15,429 14,506
支持率 - - 18,671 17,390 38,342
矜持 - - 21,972 19,479 10,105
把持 - - 22,510 21,849 19,084
胁持 - - 28,861 100,624 118,069
僵持 - - 29,039 21,326 33,348
持久战 - - 29,887 34,289 33,474
持平 - - 31,388 8,607 20,874
住持 - - 34,477 45,101 37,653
操持 - - 37,951 42,953 44,408
持之以恒 - 9 38,228 19,923 11,621
自持 - - 38,725 - -
各持己见 - - 54,776 88,586 102,810
旷日持久 - - 56,324 43,273 64,763
持家 - - 65,380 48,278 25,450
相持不下 - - 67,554 64,331 117,746
勤俭持家 - - 88,154 46,213 31,364
争持 - - 88,613 83,069 99,959
持重 - - 89,409 56,378 38,589
相持 - - 91,553 31,544 50,333