U+6301 "持" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

持

U+6301 "持" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese, Japanese (as the kanji "ji" or "motsu"), and Korean (as the hanja "ji"). It fundamentally means "to hold," "to grasp," "to maintain," or "to support," and it appears frequently in compounds such as 支持 (zhīchí, meaning "to support") and 保持 (bǎochí, meaning "to maintain" or "to keep"). The character is composed of the semantic radical 扌 (hand) on the left, which indicates its association with manual actions, and the phonetic component 寺 on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation and originally depicted a temple or a place of governance. As a core lexeme in East Asian writing systems, "持" carries connotations of steadfastness, endurance, and the manual or conceptual act of holding something in place.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6301
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	持
HTML Hex Encoding	持
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x8C 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6301
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006301
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6301

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	ABF9
kCCCII	21405D
kCNS1986	1-513D
kCNS1992	1-513D
kCangjie	QGDI
kCantonese	ci4
kCihaiT	573.101
kCowles	534
kDaeJaweon	0778.020
kDefinition	sustain, support; hold, grasp
kEACC	21405D
kFanqie	直之
kFenn	46C
kFennIndex	72.11
kFourCornerCode	5404.1
kGB0	1954
kGB1	1954
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0961p
kHangul	지:0E
kHanYu	31866.020
kHanyuPinlu	chí(601)
kHanyuPinyin	31866.020:chí
kHKGlyph	1544
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0778.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31866.020
kIRGKangXi	0429.050
kIRG_GSource	G0-3356
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ABF9
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B7D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EAD5
kIRG_KSource	K0-7225
kIRG_TSource	T1-513D
kIRG_VSource	V1-567A
kJapanese	ジチもつもち
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1367
kJapaneseKun	MOTSU MOCHI
kJapaneseOn	JI CHI
kJis0	2793
kKangXi	0429.050
kKorean	CI
kLau	286
kMainlandTelegraph	2170
kMandarin	chí
kMatthews	1035
kMeyerWempe	261
kMojiJoho	MJ012321
kMorohashi	12019
kNelson	1903
kPhonetic	149
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2251+64.3.6
kRSUnicode	64.6
kSBGY	062.51
kSMSZD2003Index	250.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	chí粵ci4
kTaiwanTelegraph	2170
kTang	*djhiə
kTGHZ2013	045.200:chí
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	trì
kXerox	244:344
kXHC1983	0143.040:chí