持
hold; have
9 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 119.
Readings
- もつ (kun reading): 持つ (もつ) to hold (in one's hand); 持株会社 (もちかぶがいしゃ) holding company
- もち (kun reading): 気持ち (きもち) feeling; 金持ち (かねもち) rich person
- ジ (on reading): 支持 (しじ) support; 維持 (いじ) maintenance
- もてる (kun reading): 持て余す (もてあます) to be too much for one; 強持て (こわもて) deferential treatment (out of fear)
Components
Words using 持
- 持つ (もつ) to hold (in one's hand)
- 持株会社 (もちかぶがいしゃ) holding company
- 受け持つ (うけもつ) to take (be in) charge of
- 併せ持つ (あわせもつ) to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points)
- 生まれ持つ (うまれもつ) to have (something) innate
- 気持ち (きもち) feeling
- 金持ち (かねもち) rich person
- 持ち込む (もちこむ) to bring in
- 持ち上げる (もちあげる) to elevate
- 持ち主 (もちぬし) owner
- 支持 (しじ) support
- 維持 (いじ) maintenance
- 保持 (ほじ) retention
- 所持 (しょじ) possession
- 支持者 (しじしゃ) supporter
- 持て余す (もてあます) to be too much for one
- 強持て (こわもて) deferential treatment (out of fear)
- 間が持てない (まがもてない) not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand
- 持てる者と持たざる者 (もてるものともたざるもの) haves and have-nots
- 持てる者 (もてるもの) (the) haves
- 扶持 (ふち) salary (paid in rice to a samurai)
- 持子 (もつご) stone moroko (Pseudorasbora parva)
- 扶持米 (ふちまい) stipend in rice
- 食い扶持 (くいぶち) food expenses
- あてがい扶持 (あてがいぶち) discretionary allowance
399 words in all.