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维持生活

wéi chí shēng huó

4-character word Traditional 維持生活

What 维持生活 means

1. to subsist
2. to eke out a living
3. to keep body and soul together

The characters in 维持生活

• 维wéito preserve; to maintain; to hold together
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 活huóto live; alive; living

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?