維

See also: 维

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived terms

• 羅

Descendants

• 维

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		維
simp.		维

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 維
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip 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／形声, 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 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 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. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 惟 (wéi, “to think; to contemplate”).
11. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 唯 (wéi, “only”).
12. ^† (deprecated template usage) 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

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōng (yong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yong
    • Wade–Giles: yung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iong
    • Palladius: юн (jun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 維

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

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Japanese

Kanji

維

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ゆい (yui)^{←ゆい (yui, historical)←ゆゐ (yuwi, ancient)}
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: たもつ (tamotsu, 維); つな (tsuna, 維); つなぐ (tsunagu, 維ぐ)
• Nanori: ゆき (yuki)

Usage notes

• Most dictionaries proscribe historical -uwi readings すゐ (suwi), ずゐ (zuwi), つゐ (tuwi), ゆゐ (yuwi), and るゐ (ruwi) as attested in many historical documents.

Etymology

Kanji in this term
維
い Grade: S
kan'on

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 維 (MC ywij).

Affix

維(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. hold together; keep; maintain
2. what holds together; net, supportive

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Korean

Hanja

維 (eumhun 벼리 유 (byeori yu))

1. hanja form^? of 유 (“the guide ropes at the edge of a fishing net; fishing net”)

Compounds

• 유지 (維持, yuji, “keep, maintain”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 維 (duy)

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