執
zhí

hold in hand

执 (執) zhí
execute verb
to carry out, implement, or put a plan or task into effect

公司要求全体员工必须严格执行新出台的规章制度。

gōng​sī yāo​qiú quán​tǐ yuán​gōng bì​xū yán​gé zhí xíng xīn chū​tái de guī​zhāng zhì​dù.

The company requires all employees to strictly implement the newly issued rules and regulations.

hold verb
to hold in the hand or grasp firmly

他手中执着一把长剑，威风凛凛。

tā shǒu zhōng zhí zhe yī bǎ cháng​jiàn, wēi​fēng​lǐn​lǐn.

Holding a long sword in his hand, he looked quite majestic.

Frequency
Character
Written text
763rd most common 245.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,094th most common 85.8 per million appears in 35% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.71 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
16.3 per million

Details
Simplified
执
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+57F7

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)