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坚持

jiān chí

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 堅持

坚持 (jiān chí) means "to persevere with". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 坚持 means

1. to persevere with
2. to persist in
3. to insist on

The characters in 坚持

• 坚jiānstrong; solid; firm
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support

Example sentences

• 坚持。
  Keep it up!
• 坚持到底！
  Stiff upper lip!
• 珍坚持她是对的。
  Jane insisted that she was right.
• 他们坚持让他走。
  They insist that he should go.
• 她坚持让我付钱。
  She insisted on my paying the bill.
• 咬紧牙关坚持到底！
  Yǎojǐnyáguān jiānchí dàodǐ!
  Grit your teeth and bear it!

Words starting with 坚持

• 坚持不懈jiān chí bù xiè(idiom) to persevere unremittingly; to keep going until the end
• 坚持下去jiān chí xià qùto press on
• 坚持不渝jiān chí bù yúto stick to sth without change (idiom); to persevere

Where 坚持 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Growth, goals & success (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiān chí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.