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
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
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences