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
• Min Nan (POJ): î-chhî / ûi-chhî / bî-tî / ûi-tî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wéichí
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄔˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weichy
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wéichíh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • 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/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î-chhî
    • Tâi-lô: î-tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ichii
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /i²³⁻³³ t͡ɕʰi²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /i²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /i²⁴⁻²² t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûi-chhî
    • Tâi-lô: uî-tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uichii
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /ui²⁴⁻²² t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³⁻²² t͡ɕʰi¹³/
  • (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):

edit

• 保 (bǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
• 保持 (bǎochí)

• 維繫／维系 (wéixì)

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

edit

• 保 (bǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
• 保護／保护 (bǎohù)
• 保障 (bǎozhàng)

• 掩護／掩护 (yǎnhù)
• 維護／维护 (wéihù)
• 護／护 (hù) (literary, or in compounds)

Derived terms

• 維持生活／维持生活 (wéichí shēnghuó)

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

維持 (hiragana いじ, rōmaji iji)

1. maintenance

Verb

維持する (transitive, suru conjugation, hiragana いじする, rōmaji iji suru)

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 (い)持 (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.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	維持し	いじし	iji shi
Continuative (連用形)	維持し	いじし	iji shi
Terminal (終止形)	維持する	いじする	iji suru
Attributive (連体形)	維持する	いじする	iji suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	維持すれ	いじすれ	iji sure
Imperative (命令形)	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