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维

wéi

hold together, maintain

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 維.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

隹 sound component

隹  Sound component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

维 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
维 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
维 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
维 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
维 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

维 (維) 

wéi

maintain, preserve, safeguard; to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension; vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wéi​shēng​sù])

维 (維) 

Wéi

abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wéi​wú​'ěr]; surname Wei

Most common words with 维
Freq.
Word
Meaning

维

to preserve

维护

to defend

维持

to keep

思维

thinking

维修

maintenance (of equipment)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

潍

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 46.7083% of movies

527th most common character in movies

520th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

維

Unicode

U+7EF4


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