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