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维持

wéi chí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 維持

维持 (wéi chí) means "to keep". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 维持 means

1. to keep; to maintain; to preserve

The characters in 维持

• 维wéito preserve; to maintain; to hold together
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support

Example sentences

• 他靠什么维持生活？
  Tā kào shénme wéichíshēnghuó?
  What does he do for a living?
• 他靠什幺维持生活？
  What does he do for a living?
• 你在东京如何维持生计？
  Nǐ zài Dōngjīng rúhé wéichí shēngjì?
  How did you make a living in Tokyo?
• 维持一个人的声誉是很难的。
  Wéichí yīgèrén de shēngyù shì hěn nán de.
  It's hard to maintain one's reputation.
• 许多网站都是靠广告收入来维持的。
  Many websites are supported by revenue from advertising.
• 发生旱灾的时候，农民很难维持生计。
  Fāshēng hànzāi de shíhou, nóngmín hěn nán wéichí shēngjì.
  During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.

Words starting with 维持

• 维持费wéi chí fèimaintenance costs
• 维持生活wéi chí shēng huóto subsist; to eke out a living; to keep body and soul together
• 维持原判wéi chí yuán pànto affirm the original sentence (law)

Where 维持 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wéi–wěi (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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