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坚持

堅持traditional

HSK 3#751 by frequencyradical 土

jiān chí["v"]

to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on

Examples

坚持。

Hold on.

坚持到底！

Stiff upper lip!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.