维 維
维維 in English
- to preserve / to maintain / to hold together / dimension / vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 維, the traditional character: 维 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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丹尼尔看起来像个维吾尔族人。
Daniel looks like an Uyghur.
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他对自己的思维方式进行着很多思考。
He puts a lot of thought into how he thinks.
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他的思维方式很幼稚。
His way of thinking is very childish.
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你在东京如何维持生计？
How did you make a living in Tokyo?
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你是维族人吗？
Are you an Uighur?
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只有我一个不会维语。
I'm the only one who doesn't know Uyghur.
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和一个只说"是"与"否"的人维持一段对话是很难的。
It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".
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在瑞士只有８０个维族人。
There are only 80 Uyghurs in Switzerland.