U+7EF4 "维" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
维
U+7EF4 "维" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions primarily as a verb meaning "to maintain," "to preserve," or "to hold together," and it also serves as a noun in words like "dimension" or "latitude" within mathematical and spatial contexts. As a radical component, it combines the silk radical (纟) on the left, suggesting threads or binding, with the phonetic component 隹 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "wéi" in Mandarin. This character is widely used in modern Chinese vocabulary, appearing in terms such as 维护 (wéihù, "to protect"), 思维 (sīwéi, "thought" or "thinking"), and 维持 (wéichí, "to sustain"), and it is also an integral part of the name of the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7EF4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 维 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 维 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xBB 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7EF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007EF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7ef4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27514E |
| kCangjie | VMOG |
| kCantonese | wai4 |
| kDefinition | maintain, preserve, safeguard |
| kEACC | 27514E |
| kFourCornerCode | 2011 |
| kGB0 | 4612 |
| kHanYu | 53416.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wéi(419) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53416.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E2C |
| kTGH | 2013:2492 |
| kKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4850 |
| kMandarin | wéi |
| kRSUnicode | 120'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 382.140:wéi |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "維" U+7DAD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1195.020:wéi |