維

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

• 羅

• 维

• 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

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

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”).

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​.

維

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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• 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)

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proscribe historical -uwi readings すゐ (suwi), ずゐ (zuwi), つゐ (tuwi), ゆゐ (yuwi), and るゐ (ruwi) as attested in many historical documents.

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 維 (MC jiuɪ).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [i]

維 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

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

維 (eumhun 벼리 유 (byeori yu))

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

• 유지 (維持, yuji, “keep, maintain”)

維 (duy)

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