持橐簪笔

to serve as a counselor (idiom)

to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control

sack / tube open at both ends / (onom.) footsteps

hairpin

old variant of 簪[zan1]

pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]