维
Wéiwéi HSK4

hold together, maintain

维 (維) Wéi frequency
uighur noun
abbreviation for the Uighur ethnic group

这本维汉字典非常实用。

zhè běn Wéi Hàn zì​diǎn fēi​cháng shí​yòng.

This Uyghur-Chinese dictionary is very practical.

Wei proper name
a Chinese surname

这里的居民多半姓维。

zhè​lǐ de jū​mín duō​bàn xìng Wéi.

Most of the residents here have the surname Wei.

维 (維) wéi
maintain verb
to preserve, maintain, or hold together

他仅靠在街头卖艺来维生，日子过得很辛苦。

tā jǐn kào zài jiē​tóu mài​yì lái wéi​shēng, rì​zi guò de hěn xīn​kǔ.

He makes a living solely as a street performer, and his life is very hard.

dimension noun
a measure of spatial extent in mathematics or physics

这种模型是建立在二维空间之上的。

zhè zhǒng mó​xíng shì jiàn​lì zài èr​wéi kōng​jiān zhī​shàng de.

This model is built on a two-dimensional space.

vitamin noun
an abbreviation for vitamin (维生素 wéi​shēng​sù)

多吃点水果可以补充维C。

duō chī diǎn shuǐ​guǒ kě​yǐ bǔ​chōng wéi C.

Eating more fruit can help supplement Vitamin C.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)