持
chí HSK3

sustain

持 chí
to maintain verbnoun
to maintain; to keep; to preserve; to support; to persist in a state
to hold verbadjective
to hold; to grasp; to take in hand
to hold an opinion verb
to hold or possess a certain thought, view, or attitude

我们总是对新想法持开放态度。

wǒ​men zǒng​shì duì xīn xiǎng​fa chí kāi​fàng tài​du.

We are always open to new ideas.

但我个人对他持保留意见。

dàn wǒ gè​rén duì tā chí bǎo​liú yì​jian.

I personally have reservations about him.

to manage verbnoun
to manage; to administer; to run or be in charge of affairs
to confront
to confront or oppose; to be at a deadlock with another party
to control
to control or restrain; to coerce someone
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
357th most common 620.1 per million
Movie subtitles
405th most common 369.4 per million appears in 81% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.93 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
81.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6301

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