Hanja Analyzer
維

維 — yu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
벼리 유
Romanization
yu
English
maintain, preserve, safeguard
Mandarin
wéi
Japanese on'yomi
イ, ユイ, ヨウ, ユ
Japanese kun'yomi
これ つな つなぐ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#643 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Radical
糸 (120, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
隹
Unicode
U+7DAD

Parts that make up 維

  • 糸 실 사, 가는실 멱 꼬아 놓은 실타래실·천·끈, 그리고 잇고 매는 일
  • 隹 새 추sound 꽁지 짧은 새새. 鳥 와 갈라 쓰나 뜻은 같다

How 維 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 維 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 糸, 唯.

Korean example words with 維

  • 보유하다保維 Korean gloss: 보존하여 유지하다
  • 유신하다維新 Korean gloss: 낡은 제도를 고쳐 새롭게 하다
  • 유지되다維持 Korean gloss: 어떤 상태나 상황이 그대로 보존되거나 변함없이 계속되어 지탱되다
  • 신섬유新纖維 Korean gloss: 새로운 섬유
  • 폐섬유廢纖維 Korean gloss: 못 쓰게 된 섬유
  • 갈섬유葛纖維 Korean gloss: 칡의 속껍질에서 뽑은 섬유
  • 섬유류纖維類 Korean gloss: 섬유의 종류를 통틀어 이르는 말
  • 유지비維持費 Korean gloss: 무엇을 지니거나 지탱하는 데 드는 비용
  • 유지력維持力 Korean gloss: 어떤 상태나 상황을 그대로 보존하거나 변함없이 계속하여 지탱하는 힘
  • 견섬유絹纖維 Korean gloss: 누에고치에서 뽑은 섬유. 천연 섬유 가운데 가장 가늘고 길며 광택이 난다
  • 유세차維歲次 Korean gloss: ‘이해의 차례는’이라는 뜻으로, 제문(祭文)의 첫머리에 관용적으로 쓰는 말
  • 강유綱維 Korean gloss: 나라의 법도.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 維

  • 維持いじ maintenance; preservation; improvement
  • 繊維せんい fibre; fiber
  • 維新いしん reformation; revolution; renewal
  • 合成繊維ごうせいせんい synthetic fibre; synthetic fiber
  • 化学繊維かがくせんい synthetic fiber; synthetic fibre; chemical fiber
  • 維那いな one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs)
  • 維納ウィーン Vienna (Austria)
  • 四維しい four ordinal directions; four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)
  • 自維じい (coalition of) the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party
  • 塞爾維セルビア Serbia
  • 蘇維埃ソビエト soviet; Soviet Union
  • 維持費いじひ maintenance costs

Characters sharing the phonetic 隹

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “유”

Other hanja with radical 糸

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