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維

維 U+7DAD, 維
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DAD
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[U+7DAE]
See also: 维

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TranslingualEdit

 

Han characterEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

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

ChineseEdit

trad. 維
simp. 维

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 維
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
匯 *ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓 *kʰʷriːl
淮 *ɡʷriːl
睢 *qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉 *sqʷi
趡 *skʰʷilʔ
踓 *skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖 *sqʰʷi
濉 *sqʰʷi
倠 *qʰʷi
婎 *qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維 *ɢʷi
惟 *ɢʷi
唯 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰 *ɢʷi
琟 *ɢʷil
鷕 *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷 *ɢʷril
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷi): semantic 糸 (“thread”) + phonetic 唯 (OC *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ) – to tie fast, to maintain.

The original pronunciation of 隹 (OC *ɢʷi) was lost after the classical period, but can still be seen in other characters of the phonetic series:

  • 惟 (OC *ɢʷi, “to think”),
  • 唯 (OC *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ, “only”),
  • 雖 (OC *sqʰʷi, “although”),
  • 帷 (OC *ɢʷril, “curtain, screen”) and
  • 淮 (OC *ɡʷriːl, “Huai River”).

Pronunciation 1Edit

Note:
  • ûi - literary;
  • î/bî - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 維
Mandarin Beijing /uei³⁵/
Harbin /uei⁴⁴/ ～生素
/uei²⁴/ ～持
Tianjin /vei⁴⁵/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ve⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /vi²⁴/
Xining /uɨ²⁴/
Yinchuan /vei⁵³/
Lanzhou /vei⁵³/
Ürümqi /vei⁵¹/
Wuhan /uei²¹³/
Chengdu /uei³¹/
Guiyang /uei²¹/
Kunming /uei³¹/
Nanjing /uəi²⁴/
Hefei /ue⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /uei¹¹/
Pingyao /uei¹³/
Hohhot /vei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /vi²³/
Suzhou /vi¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦui²¹³/
Wenzhou /vu³¹/
Hui Shexian /ue⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ue⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei¹³/
Xiangtan /uəi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ui⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /vi¹¹/
Taoyuan /vui¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐi²¹/
Nanning /wɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /wɐi²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ui³⁵/
/bi³⁵/ 俗
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /mi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zui⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vui³¹/
Rime
Character 維
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以追切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /juɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwi/
Li
Rong		 /ui/
Wang
Li		 /jwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /wi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wéi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 維
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wéi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ywij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷij/ (? < *ɢʷuj)
English rope for tying

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 維
Reading # 1/1
No. 12852
Phonetic
component		 唯
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 惟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷi/

DefinitionsEdit

維

  1. † to tie; to fasten; to tie up
  2. † to link; to connect
  3. to hold together; to maintain; to preserve; to safeguard
    維持 / 维持  ―  wéichí  ―  to maintain
  4. † thick rope for tying objects; cord
  5. † corner; nook; recess
  6. † net; mesh; netting
  7. (geometry) dimension
  8. † order; law; outline
  9. † long and thin object; fibre; string
    纖維 / 纤维  ―  xiānwéi  ―  fibre
  10. † Alternative form of 惟 (wéi, “to think; to contemplate”).
  11. † Alternative form of 唯 (wéi, “only”).
  12. † Alternative form of 惟 (wéi, “meaningless particle of interjection”).
  13. Short for 維生素／维生素 (wéishēngsù, “vitamin”).
  14. Short for 維吾爾／维吾尔 (Wéiwú'ěr, “Uyghur”).
  15. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Pronunciation 2Edit

DefinitionsEdit

維

  1. † Only used in 盧維／卢维 (“ancient river in the Yan Province”).

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

維

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

NotesEdit

  • As in historical readings "すゐ", "つゐ", "るゐ", most dictionaries do not have "ゆゐ" as a historical reading for 維. According to historical data, the on-reading of 維 is "ゆい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten, has the "ゆゐ" and related -wi historical on-readings.

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

維 (duy)

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