保持 bǎochí▶ guardar; mantener

Stroke order

保持 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 保 — 9 strokes
• 持 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to keep
2. to maintain
3. to hold
4. to preserve

Related words

• 主持Anfitrión
• 保存Preservación; Conservación
• 保留retener
• 保险Seguro
• 持续Continuo
• 保养mantener

保持 is pronounced bǎochí and means “guardar; mantener”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 保持 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.