hold; have

Builds 48 distinct compound words — ranked #55 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ジ
訓 kun: も.つ

Holding, keeping, maintaining. 気持ち a feeling, 持参 bringing along, 維持 maintenance.

The ten most common compounds built on 持. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

48compounds built

2,655times those words occur

#95by productivity alone

#44by how often it turns up

Where 持 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 持. Each one opens its own map.

出come out; put out持ち出す#4 物thing持ち物#8 上above; up持ち上げる#16 気spirit; air; mood気持ち#20 金gold; money; metal金持ち#28 長long; chief長持ち#68

Words built on 持

持つもつ1,490 uses

金持ちかねもち277 uses

気持ちきもち203 uses

持ってくる146 uses

持っていく111 uses

支持しじ75 uses

持ち上げるもちあげる48 uses

持ち主もちぬし46 uses

維持いじ32 uses

持ち出すもちだす17 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.