The kanji 維: meaning, readings and stroke order

維

Meaning: maintain, fiber
On reading: イ i
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 14
Radical: 糸 silk
Level: Level 7 · junior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: giữ, sợi (duy)
Japanese: たもつ。ほそいいと。
Korean: 유지하다, 섬유 (유)
Chinese: 维持、纤维 (维)

Readings, words and example sentences

イ i · on reading

維い持じ
keeping, maintaining
きれいな状態を 維い持じします。
We keep it nice and clean.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.