維 — Chinese character
維
wéi
to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
- Pinyin
- wéi
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 糹 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 糹; sound component 隹
- Simplified
- 维
- Japanese
- 維 as a kanji
維 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 3 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 4 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 3.2
- Hexagram 17
- Hexagram 29
- Hexagram 35
- Mencius 5A.4
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.