維
See also: 维
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Contents
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 | |
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| simp. | 维 | |
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 維 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 隹 (OC *tjul).
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
DefinitionsEdit
維
- † to tie; to fasten; to tie up
- † to link; to connect
- to hold together; to maintain; to preserve; to safeguard
- † thick rope for tying objects; cord
- † corner; nook; recess
- † net; mesh; netting
- (geometry) dimension
- † order; law; outline
- † long and thin object; fibre; string
- † Alternative form of 惟 (wéi, “to think; to contemplate”).
- † Alternative form of 唯 (wéi, “only”).
- † Alternative form of 惟 (wéi, “meaningless particle of interjection”).
- Short for 維生素／维生素 (wéishēngsù, “vitamin”).
- Short for 維吾爾／维吾尔 (Wéiwú'ěr, “Uyghur”).
- A surname.
CompoundsEdit
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
維
- † Only used in 盧維／卢维 (“ancient river in the Yan Province”).
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
維
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ReadingsEdit
- Goon: ゆい (yui)←ゆゐ (yuwi, historical)
- Kan’on: い (i, Jōyō)←ゐ (wi, historical)
- Kun: たもつ (tamotsu, 維); つな (tsuna, 維); つなぐ (tsunagu, 維ぐ); これ (kore, 維れ)
- Nanori: ゆき (yuki)
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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