維

See also 维

Translingual

simpl.		维
trad.		維

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 隹 – to tie fast, to maintain.

Han character

維 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火人土 (VFOG), four-corner 2091₄)

1. maintain, preserve, safeguard

Derived terms

• 羅

Descendants

• 维

References

• KangXi: page 927, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27568
• Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3415, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7DAD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

維 (simplified 维, Yale wai4)

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Japanese

Kanji

維 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: い (i), ゆい (yui)
• Kun: つな (tsuna), つなぐ (tsunagu), これ (kore)

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Korean

Hanja

維 (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

維 (simplified 维, pinyin wéi (wei2), Wade-Giles wei²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

維 (ui)

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Vietnamese

Han character

維 (duy)