加持 jiāchí to bless Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents jiāchí to bless · to empower 加 jiā verbnoun to apply to apply a specific action to something or someone; to confer; to bestow; to inflict (punishment or pressure)持 chí verbnoun to maintain to maintain; to keep; to preserve; to support; to persist in a statejiāchí to hold concurrently 加 jiā verb to add to add; to put in; to append; to place something on top of another; to perform addition in mathematics持 chí verbadjective to hold to hold; to grasp; to take in hand