坚持 (jiānchí) means Continue (insist on). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他 坚持 每天跑步。
Tā jiānchí měi tiān pǎo bù.
He keeps up his daily running.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 坚持
学习汉语要 坚持 下去。
Xuéxí Hànyǔ yào jiānchí xiàqù.
Studying Chinese means sticking with it.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 坚持
关键是要 坚持 下去。
Guānjiàn shì yào jiānchí xiàqù.
The key is to keep at it.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 关键
无论多难，他都 坚持 下去。
Wúlùn duō nán, tā dōu jiānchí xiàqù.
However hard it is, he keeps going.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 无论
From the graded readers
我以为自己可以 坚持 下去。
wǒ yǐwéi zìjǐ kěyǐ jiānchí xiàqu.
I thought I could keep it up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
朋友说我 坚持 不了一个星期。
péngyou shuō wǒ jiānchí bùliǎo yīgè xīngqī.
A friend said I wouldn't keep it up for a week.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
Questions about 坚持
How is 坚持 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 坚持 (jiānchí, "Continue (insist on)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 坚持 an HSK word?
Yes — 坚持 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 坚持?
The dictionary page for 坚持 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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