wéi

to maintain; to preserve; to hold together

Character data

Radical ⽷ (120.8)
Strokes 14
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

維 wéi
  1. 1. to maintain
  2. 2. to preserve
  3. 3. to hold together
  4. 4. dimension
  5. 5. vitamin (abbr. for wéi shēng sù)
  6. 6. surname Wei
  7. 7. abbr. for Uighur wéi wú ěr

Words containing 維

Word Meaning
to subsist; to eke out a living
maintenance costs
historical name for Yangzhou yáng zhōu
Weiyang District, Yangzhou, Jiangsu
(math.) dimension; dimensionality
(political) reform; modernization; revitalization
the reformist faction
Hundred Days Reform, 1898 Qing reforms
Uyghur ethnic group
to defend (legal) rights
civil rights activist
Victorinox (knife manufacturer)
Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
(Johannes Lodewikus) Viljoen (South African ambassador to Taiwan)
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
Vilnius, capital of Lithuania
Werther, German masculine given name
Wittgenstein (name)
Virgin (company)
vitamin
to maintain social stability
vascular
vascular bundle (botany)
vascular plants; tracheophytes (botany)