維

EtymologyEdit

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

Han characterEdit

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

1. maintain, preserve, safeguard

Derived termsEdit

• 羅

DescendantsEdit

• 维

ReferencesEdit

• 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

HanziEdit

維 (simplified 维, Yale wai4)

KanjiEdit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

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

HanjaEdit

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

HanziEdit

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

Han characterEdit

維 (ui)

Han characterEdit

維 (duy)