Kanji1 / 9
持 kanji
hold, have
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ジ
Kun readings
もつ-もちもてる
Words with 持
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —持参金dowry
- —持続性durability
- —所持金money in one's possession
- —支持率approval rating
- —支持力bearing capacity
- —支持杭bearing pile
- —持するto hold; to maintain
- —支持層base support (e.g. for a party in an election); substrate; load bearing layer; supporting layer
- —不支持non-support; disapproval (e.g. in an opinion poll)
- —念持仏Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home
- —持久走marathon training in physical education classes in Japanese schools
- —持国天Dhrtarastra (Buddhist deity)
- —加持身buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism); altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon)
- —持将棋drawn game; impasse
- —持仏堂hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept
- —持針器needle holder; needle driver
- —支持線support line; support level; supporting wire; subsidiary wire
- —護持僧imperial protector monk; monk who performed rituals for the wellbeing of the imperial household
- —所持人bearer; holder
- —広い支持broad support; wide-ranging support