wéi

maintain, preserve, safeguard

DEFINITIONS

維 wéi
  • abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]
  • surname Wei
  • to preserve
  • to maintain
  • to hold together
  • dimension
  • vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])

WORDS

舉步艱 jǔ bù wéi jiān to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)
英屬爾京群島 yīng shǔ wéi ěr jīng qún dǎo British Virgin Islands
莫霍洛奇 mò huò luò wéi qí Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho
莫霍洛奇不連續面 mò huò luò wéi qí bù lián xù miàn Moho (aka Mohorovičić discontinuity, the lower boundary of the earth's lithosphere); abbr. to 莫霍面[Mo4 huo4 mian4]
天羅地網 wàn wéi tiān luó dì wǎng World Wide Web (WWW); lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth; term coined by China News Digest and abbreviated to 萬維網|万维网[Wan4 wei2 wang3]
網 wàn wéi wǎng World Wide Web (WWW)
網聯合體 wàn wéi wǎng lián hé tǐ W3C, global Internet steering committee
蒙得的亞 méng dé wéi dì yà Montevideo, capital of Uruguay
蒙特多 méng tè wéi duō Montevideo, capital of Uruguay (Tw)
蒙羅亞 méng luó wéi yà Monrovia, capital of Liberia
薩卡什利 sà kǎ shí wéi lì Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia 2004-2013
埃 sū wéi āi Soviet (council)
埃俄國 sū wéi āi é guó Soviet Russia (1917-1991)
埃社會主義共和國聯盟 sū wéi āi shè huì zhǔ yì gòng hé guó lián méng Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991; abbr. to 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2] Soviet Union
蘇聯最高蘇埃 sū lián zuì gāo sū wéi āi Supreme Soviet
赫塞哥納 hè sè gē wéi nà Herzegovina (Tw)
赫曼・麥爾爾 hè màn ・ mài ěr wéi ěr Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bai2 jing1]
空間 chāo wéi kōng jiān hyperspace; superspace; higher dimensional space
路德希 lù dé wéi xī Ludwig (name)
路德希港 lù dé wéi xī gǎng Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim
進退谷 jìn tuì wéi gǔ no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation
克 nǎ wéi kè Narvik (city in Nordland, Norway)
醋酸纖 cù suān xiān wéi cellulose acetate (used for film and fiber)
埃拉 lǐ wéi āi lā riviera (loanword)
耶拉 lǐ wéi yē lā riviera (loanword) (Tw)