cầm

noun

• Lute-like instrument; musical instrument
  • Cầm, Kỳ, Thi, Hoạ: Music, Chess, Poetry, Painting (regarded as the four amusements or accomplishments of a feudal intellectual)

verb

• To hold, to keep
  • Đảng cầm quyền: the party holding power, the party in power, the in party
  • người cầm lái: the person holding the steering wheel, the driver
  • cầm quân đi đánh giặc: to hold the command of an army and fight aggressors, to command an army in the fight against aggressors
  • cầm tay nhau: to hold hands