维
wéi HSK4

hold together, maintain

维 維 wéi
to maintain nounverb
(bound form) to maintain; to preserve; to safeguard
to tie noun
(literary) to tie up; to fasten; to link
fiber noun
(bound form) a fine thread-like structure, as in 纤维 xiān​wéi
dimension noun
dimension, as used in geometry or physics; a factor or aspect of a situation
[auxiliary]
(literary) used at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence to balance the rhythm or adjust tone, same as 惟 wéi or 唯 wéi
heavy rope
(literary) a thick rope used to tie or fasten things; (by extension) principles or social order
vitamin
(bound form) abbreviation for 维生素 wéi​shēng​sù
Uighur
(bound form) abbreviation for 维吾尔 wéi​wú'ěr
Wei
a surname
to be
(literary) to be

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Frequency
Character
Written text
520th most common 407.6 per million
Movie subtitles
527th most common 272.1 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
81.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
維
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7EF4

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)