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维持

wéichí
verbHSK 4

“To keep” in Chinese is 维持 (wéichí).

Meaning

  • to keep; to maintain; to preserve

Example

他靠什么维持生活？

What does he do for a living?

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

wéiHSK 411 strokesabbr. for Uyghur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]chíHSK 39 strokesto hold

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