Chinese symbol for “maintenance”
维修
wéi xiū
Traditional: 維修
maintenance (of equipment); to protect and maintain
The closest CC-CEDICT match for maintenance is 维修 (wéi xiū), defined as: maintenance (of equipment); to protect and maintain.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “maintenance”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 保养 (保養) | bǎo yǎng | to take good care of (or conserve) one's health; to keep in good repair |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 维修.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 维护 (維護) | wéi hù | to defend; to safeguard |
| 维持 (維持) | wéi chí | to keep; to maintain; to preserve |
| 思维 (思維) | sī wéi | (line of) thought; thinking |
| 纤维 (纖維) | xiān wéi | fiber; 种 (zhǒng) |
| 维基 (維基) | wéi jī | wiki (Internet) |
| 修改 | xiū gǎi | to amend; to alter |
| 修正 | xiū zhèng | to revise; to amend; to rectify |
| 修复 (修復) | xiū fù | to restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “maintenance”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.