Kanji · first appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary
維

維 – fiber, tie, rope

14 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#643 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 維 means fiber, tie, rope. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is イ (i). It is written with 14 strokes, under radical 糸 (no. 120).

Stroke order

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Readings

TypeReadingRomaji
On’yomiイi

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: (Kangxi radical 120). Components: 糸・幺・小・隹.

Words using 維

Example sentences

この車の維持は高くつく。
It is expensive running this car.
マイクロファイバークロスは、髪の毛の100分の1という細さの繊維で編みあげられたクロスです。
Microfibre cloth is cloth woven from fibres as narrow as a hundredth of the width of a hair.

Kanji with the same radical

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