维

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to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension; vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

纟 meaning “thread” + 隹 sound ( zhuī )

Components 纟隹

maintain · Heisig RSH #1082

thread + turkey

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
维尔斯特拉斯	Wéi ěr sī tè lā sī	Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
拉尔维克	Lā ěr wéi kè	Larvik (city in Vestfold, Norway)
拉斯维加斯	Lā sī Wéi jiā sī	Las Vegas, Nevada
马拉维	Mǎ lā wéi	Malawi
维西县	Wéi xī Xiàn	see 維西傈僳族自治縣\|维西傈僳族自治县[Wei2 xi1 Li4 su4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
克维拉	Kè wéi lā	Kevlar
维多利亚	Wéi duō lì yà	(name) Victoria; (place name) Victoria (capital of the Seychelles, southeastern state in A…
维多利亚州	Wéi duō lì yà Zhōu	Victoria, southeastern Australian state
阿尔加维	Ā ěr jiā wéi	the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)
阿维拉	Ā wéi lā	Avila, Spain
塞尔维亚克罗地亚语	Sài ěr wéi yà Kè luó dì yà yǔ	Serbo-Croatian (language)
一维	yī wéi	one-dimensional (math.)
维生	wéi shēng	abbr. for 維持生活\|维持生活[wei2 chi2 sheng1 huo2]
特拉维夫	Tè lā wéi fū	Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv-Jaffa
维拉	Wéi lā	Vala (Middle-earth)
维多利亚岛	Wéi duō lì yà Dǎo	Victoria Island
卡纳维拉尔角	Kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo	Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[Ken3 ni2 di2 Hang2 tian1 Zho…
维多利亚女王	Wéi duō lì yà Nǚ wáng	Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901)
明治维新	Míng zhì Wéi xīn	Meiji Restoration (Japan, 1868)
维新变法	Wéi xīn Biàn fǎ	Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

Characters sharing the sound component 隹 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
隹 sound part	zhuī	short-tailed bird; sparrow
推	tuī	to push; to expel; to drive; to decline
准	zhǔn	standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow
堆	duī	crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks
锥	zhuī	gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore
淮	huái	a river in Anhui province
椎	zhuī	spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet
稚	zhì	young, immature; childhood
谁	shéi	who? whom? whose? anyone?
濯	zhuó	to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out
睢	suī	to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited
帷	wéi	curtain, screen, tent
擢	zhuó	to pull up, to raise; to select
槜	zuì	white plum
骓	zhuī	piebald horse
碓	duì	pestle
萑	huán	grass, hay, straw