維持

See also: 维持

Chinese

		to preserve; to maintain; to hold together to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension	to grasp; to hold; support to grasp; to hold; support; manage; direct; maintain
trad. (維持)		維	持
simp. (维持)		维	持

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéichí

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁴ ci⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vì-chhṳ̀
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): î-chhî / ûi-chhî / bî-tî / ûi-tî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéichí
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄔˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wéichíh
    • Wade–Giles: wei²-chʻih²
    • Yale: wéi-chŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weichyr
    • Palladius: вэйчи (vɛjči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁴ ci⁴
    • Yale: wàih chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁴ tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁴ qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²¹ t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vì-chhṳ̀
    • Hakka Romanization System: viˇ ciiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vi² ci²
    • Sinological IPA: /vi¹¹ t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î-chhî
    • Tâi-lô: î-tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ichii
    • IPA (Taipei): /i²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /i²³⁻³³ t͡sʰi²³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /i²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰi²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûi-chhî
    • Tâi-lô: uî-tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uichii
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /ui²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³⁻²² t͡sʰi¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî-tî
    • Tâi-lô: bî-tî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bi'dii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi²⁴⁻²² ti²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûi-tî
    • Tâi-lô: uî-tî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ui'dii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³⁻²² ti¹³/

Verb

維持

1. to maintain; to keep; to preserve; to uphold
2. to support
3. to protect

Synonyms

• (to maintain):

(deprecated template usage)

• 保 (bǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
• 保守 (bǎoshǒu)
• 保持 (bǎochí)
• 守 (shǒu)
• 把牢 (bǎláo)
• 維繫／维系 (wéixì)

 

• (to support): 支持 (zhīchí)
• (to protect):

(deprecated template usage)

• 保 (bǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
• 保庇 (Hokkien)
• 保護／保护 (bǎohù)
• 保障 (bǎozhàng)
• 堅持／坚持 (jiānchí)
• 掩護／掩护 (yǎnhù)
• 維護／维护 (wéihù)
• 蔽護／蔽护 (bìhù) (literary)
• 護／护 (hù) (literary, or in compounds)

 

Related terms

• 堅持／坚持 (jiānchí)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
維	持
い Grade: S	じ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Noun

維(い)持(じ) • (iji) 

1. maintenance

Verb

維(い)持(じ)する • (iji suru) transitive suru (stem 維(い)持(じ)し (iji shi), past 維(い)持(じ)した (iji shita))

1. maintain, keep
   • 2011, NHK:

     ハードスケジュールのなか、コンディションを維持(いじ)し、ホームランを打(う)ち続(つづ)けることは大変(たいへん)なことです。

     Hādosukejūru no naka, kondishon o iji shi, hōmuran o uchitsuzukeru koto wa taihen na koto desu.

     It's a difficult thing to maintain a hard schedule, maintain my condition, and be able to keep hitting home runs.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "維持する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	維持し	いじし	iji shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	維持し	いじし	iji shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	維持する	いじする	iji suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	維持する	いじする	iji suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	維持すれ	いじすれ	iji sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	維持せよ¹ 維持しろ²	いじせよ¹ いじしろ²	iji seyo¹ iji shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	維持される	いじされる	iji sareru
Causative	維持させる 維持さす	いじさせる いじさす	iji saseru iji sasu
Potential	維持できる	いじできる	iji dekiru
Volitional	維持しよう	いじしよう	iji shiyō
Negative	維持しない	いじしない	iji shinai
Negative continuative	維持せず	いじせず	iji sezu
Formal	維持します	いじします	iji shimasu
Perfective	維持した	いじした	iji shita
Conjunctive	維持して	いじして	iji shite
Hypothetical conditional	維持すれば	いじすれば	iji sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative