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Definitions

  1. 1. to preserve
  2. 2. to maintain
  3. 3. dimension

Words Containing 维

里维埃拉
lǐ wéi āi lā

riviera (loanword)

三维
sān wéi

three-dimensional

肌原纤维
jī yuán xiān wéi

myofibril

王国维
wáng guó wéi

Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar

维尔容
wéi ěr róng

(Johannes Lodewikus) Viljoen (South African ambassador to Taiwan)

维数
wéi shù

(math.) dimension

百日维新
bǎi rì wéi xīn

Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

黑塞哥维那
hēi sài gē wéi nà

Herzegovina

二维码
èr wéi mǎ

two-dimensional barcode

维克多·雨果
wéi kè duō · yǔ guǒ

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer

沙法维王朝
shā fǎ wéi wáng cháo

Persian Safavid Dynasty 1501-1722

超维空间
chāo wéi kōng jiān

hyperspace

塞维利亚
sāi wéi lì yà
塞尔维亚语
sāi ěr wéi yà yǔ
克维拉
kè wéi lā

Kevlar

纤维
xiān wéi

fiber

维持原判
wéi chí yuán pàn

to affirm the original sentence (law)

小熊维尼
xiǎo xióng wéi ní

Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)

维多利亚女王
wéi duō lì yà nǚ wáng

Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901)

李维斯
lǐ wéi sī

Levi's (brand)

塞尔维亚和黑山
sāi ěr wéi yà hé hēi shān
路德维希
lù dé wéi xī

Ludwig (name)

四维空间
sì wéi kōng jiān

four-dimensional space (math.)

纤维胶
xiān wéi jiāo

viscose

布拉戈维申斯克
bù lā gē wéi shēn sī kè

Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Oblast 阿穆爾州|阿穆尔州[ā mù ěr zhōu]

多种维生素
duō zhǒng wéi shēng sù

multivitamin

塞尔维亚
sāi ěr wéi yà
维新变法
wéi xīn biàn fǎ

Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

维管束
wéi guǎn shù

vascular bundle (botany)

固定型思维
gù dìng xíng sī wéi

fixed mindset (as opposed to growth mindset)

不敢恭维
bù gǎn gōng wei

to be underwhelmed

维度
wéi dù

dimension (math.)

思维敏捷
sī wéi mǐn jié

quick-witted

光导纤维
guāng dǎo xiān wéi

optical fiber

福维克
fú wéi kè

Vorwerk (brand)

布拉柴维尔
bù lā chái wéi ěr

Brazzaville, capital of Congo

肌纤维
jī xiān wéi

muscle fiber

苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟
sū wéi āi shè huì zhǔ yì gòng hé guó lián méng

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991

维权
wéi quán

to defend (legal) rights

维生素
wéi shēng sù

vitamin

苏联最高苏维埃
sū lián zuì gāo sū wéi āi

Supreme Soviet

维基物种
wéi jī wù zhǒng

Wikispecies, (species.wikimedia.org), online project to catalog all known species

安妮·夏菲维
ān ní · xià fēi wéi

see 安妮·海瑟薇[ān ní · hǎi sè wēi]

奥利维亚
ào lì wéi yà

Olivia (name)

合成纤维
hé chéng xiān wéi

synthetic fiber

维多利亚瀑布
wéi duō lì yà pù bù

Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe

维修
wéi xiū

maintenance (of equipment)

思维地图
sī wéi dì tú

mind map

纤维囊泡症
xiān wéi náng pào zhèng

cystic fibrosis

布尔什维克
bù ěr shí wéi kè

Bolshevik

维基百科
wéi jī bǎi kē

Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)

瓦西里耶维奇
wǎ xī lǐ yē wéi qí

Vasilievich (name)

维西县
wéi xī xiàn

Weixi Lisu Autonomous County in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Yunnan

维基媒体基金会
wéi jī méi tǐ jī jīn huì

Wikimedia Foundation

阿尔加维
ā ěr jiā wéi

the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)

穆萨维
mù sà wéi

Moussavi, Mir Hussein (1941-), candidate in Iran's disputed 2009 elections

成长型思维
chéng zhǎng xíng sī wéi

growth mindset

人造纤维
rén zào xiān wéi

synthetic fiber

维多利亚岛
wéi duō lì yà dǎo

Victoria Island

经营管理和维护
jīng yíng guǎn lǐ hé wéi hù

Operations Administration and Maintenance

维多利亚公园
wéi duō lì yà gōng yuán

Victoria Park, Hong Kong

维基
wéi jī

wiki (Internet)

维多利亚州
wéi duō lì yà zhōu

Victoria, southeastern Australian state

椰壳纤维
yē ké xiān wéi

coconut fiber

纤维丛
xiān wéi cóng

fiber bundle (math.)

维扬区
wéi yáng qū

Weiyang district of Yangzhou city 揚州市|扬州市[yáng zhōu shì], Jiangsu

维吾尔人
wéi wú ěr rén

Uighur person or people

多维
duō wéi

multidimensional

咸与维新
xián yù wéi xīn

everyone participates in reforms (idiom)

举步维艰
jǔ bù wéi jiān

to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)

维管柱
wéi guǎn zhù

vascular column

四维
sì wéi

the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor

万维网联合体
wàn wéi wǎng lián hé tǐ

W3C, global Internet steering committee

斯维尔德洛夫
sī wéi ěr dé luò fū

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza

世界维吾尔代表大会
shì jiè wéi wú ěr dài biǎo dà huì

World Uighur Congress

维新派
wéi xīn pài

the reformist faction

维奇
wéi qí

Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555)

拉脱维亚
lā tuō wéi yà

Latvia

几维鸟
jī wéi niǎo

kiwi (bird) (loanword)

维吉尔
wéi jí ěr

Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author of the Aeneid 埃涅阿斯紀|埃涅阿斯纪[āi niè ā sī jì]

维他命
wéi tā mìng

vitamin (loanword)

维特
wéi tè

Werther, opera by Jules Massenet

维港
wéi gǎng

Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong

维达
wéi dá

Vidar (Norse deity)

维和
wéi hé

peacekeeping

无维度
wú wéi dù

dimensionless (math.)

那维克
nǎ wéi kè

Narvik (city in Nordland, Norway)

戊戌维新
wù xū wéi xīn

Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

天然纤维
tiān rán xiān wéi

natural fiber

维新
wéi xīn

(political) reform

维尼熊
wéi ní xióng

Winnie the Pooh

维妙维肖
wéi miào wéi xiào

to imitate to perfection

塞哥维亚
sè gē wéi yà

Segovia, Spain

纳什维尔
nà shí wéi ěr

Nashville, capital of Tennessee

塞尔维亚克罗地亚语
sāi ěr wéi yà kè luó dì yà yǔ
思维导图
sī wéi dǎo tú

mind map

德维尔潘
dé wéi ěr pān

(Dominique) de Villepin (French name)

维珍
wéi zhēn

Virgin (company)

王维
wáng wéi

Wang Wei (701-761), Tang Dynasty poet

化学纤维
huà xué xiān wéi

synthetic fiber

维克托
wéi kè tuō

Victor (name)

妮维雅
nī wéi yǎ

Nivea, skin and body care brand

维吾尔语
wéi wú ěr yǔ

Uighur language

原纤维
yuán xiān wéi

fibril

纤维肌痛
xiān wéi jī tòng

fibromyalgia

维罗纳
wéi luó nà

Verona

苏维埃俄国
sū wéi āi é guó

Soviet Russia (1917-1991)

维纳斯
wéi nà sī

Venus (mythology, Roman goddess of love)

勒维夫
lè wéi fu

Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine

维冈
wéi gāng

Wigan, town in England

戴维营
dài wéi yíng

Camp David

马尔维纳斯群岛
mǎ ěr wéi nà sī qún dǎo

Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)

阿维拉
ā wéi lā

Avila, Spain

耶莱娜·扬科维奇
yé lái nuó · yáng kē wéi qí

Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player

维持生活
wéi chí shēng huó

to subsist

美属维尔京群岛
měi shǔ wéi ěr jīng qún dǎo

United States Virgin Islands (USVI)

玻利维亚
bō lì wéi yà

Bolivia

李维
lǐ wéi

Titus Livius or Livy (59 BC-17 AD), Roman historian

埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
āi ěr wéi sī · pǔ léi sī lì

Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star

布干维尔岛
bù gān wéi ěr dǎo

Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea

奥斯维辛
ào sī wéi xīn

Auschwitz (concentration camp)

三维空间
sān wéi kōng jiān

three-dimensional space

中密度纤维板
zhōng mì dù xiān wéi bǎn

medium-density fiberboard (MDF)

马拉维
mǎ lā wéi

Malawi

维多利亚湖
wéi duō lì yà hú

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza, Kenya, on the White Nile

妮维娅
nī wéi yà

Nivea, skin and body care brand

明治维新
míng zhì wéi xīn

Meiji Restoration (Japan, 1868)

英属维尔京群岛
yīng shǔ wéi ěr jīng qún dǎo

British Virgin Islands

亚努科维奇
yà nǔ kē wéi qí

Viktor Feyedov Yanukovych (1950-) Ukrainian politician

维多利亚
wéi duō lì yà

Victoria (name)

约维克
yāo wéi kè

Gjøvik (city in Oppland, Norway)

利维坦
lì wéi tǎn

leviathan (loanword)

蒙罗维亚
méng luó wéi yà

Monrovia, capital of Liberia

莫霍洛维奇
mò huò luò wéi qí

Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho

扬科维奇
yáng kē wéi qí

Jankovic

膳食纤维
shàn shí xiān wéi

dietary fiber

维吾尔族
wéi wú ěr zú

Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang

恭维
gōng wei

to praise

维西傈僳族自治县
wéi xī lì sù zú zì zhì xiàn

Weixi Lisu Autonomous County in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Yunnan

维尔斯特拉斯
wéi ěr sī tè lā sī

Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician

布干维尔
bù gān wéi ěr

Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

神经纤维瘤
shén jīng xiān wéi liú

neurofibroma

维护
wéi hù

to defend

维萨
wéi sà

Visa (credit card)

维氏
wéi shì

Victorinox (knife manufacturer)

维尼纶
wéi ní lún

see 維綸|维纶[wéi lún]

神经纤维
shén jīng xiān wéi

neurofibril

抽象思维
chōu xiàng sī wéi

abstract thought

波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那
bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà

Bosnia and Herzegovina

萨卡什维利
sà kǎ shí wéi lì

Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia 2004-2013

霍洛维茨
huò luò wéi cí

Horowitz (name)

赫曼·麦尔维尔
hè màn · mài ěr wéi ěr

Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bái jīng]

圣基茨和尼维斯
shèng jī cí hé ní wéi sī

Saint Kitts and Nevis

爱莫利维尔
ài mò lì wéi ěr

Emeryville, city on San Fransico Bay, California

拉斯维加斯
lā sī wéi jiā sī

Las Vegas, Nevada

维拉港
wéi lā gǎng

Port Vila, capital of Vanuatu

桑娇维塞
sāng jiāo wéi sāi

Sangiovese (grape type)

琳·戴维斯
lín · dài wéi sī

Lynn E. Davis (1943-), US academic and arms control expert, undersecretary of state 1993-1997

聚酯纤维
jù zhǐ xiān wéi

polyester fiber

低维
dī wéi

low-dimensional (math.)

维权人士
wéi quán rén shì

civil rights activist

维基词典
wéi jī cí diǎn

Wiktionary (online dictionary)

维基解密
wéi jī jiě mì

WikiLeaks

李维史陀
lǐ wéi shǐ tuó

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist

维系
wéi xì

to maintain

普罗维登斯
pǔ luó wéi dēng sī

Providence, capital of Rhode Island

戴维斯
dài wéi sī

Davis or Davies (name)

卡纳维拉尔角
kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo

Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[kěn ní dí háng tiān zhōng xīn]

中华苏维埃共和国
zhōng huá sū wéi āi gòng hé guó

Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1937)

莫霍洛维奇不连续面
mò huò luò wéi qí bù lián xù miàn

Moho (aka Mohorovičić discontinuity, the lower boundary of the earth's lithosphere)

一维
yī wéi

one-dimensional (math.)

维持
wéi chí

to keep

维也纳
wéi yě nà

Vienna, capital of Austria

高维
gāo wéi

(math.) higher dimensional

维稳
wéi wěn

to maintain social stability

波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那共和国
bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà gòng hé guó

Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那[bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà]

阿加维
ā jiā wéi

see 阿爾加維|阿尔加维[ā ěr jiā wéi]

维持费
wéi chí fèi

maintenance costs

高维空间
gāo wéi kōng jiān

(math.) higher dimensional space

万维网
wàn wéi wǎng

World Wide Web (WWW)

利伯维尔
lì bó wéi ěr

Libreville, capital of Gabon

纤维蛋白
xiān wéi dàn bái

fibrous protein

碳纤维
tàn xiān wéi

carbon fiber

二维
èr wéi

two-dimensional

麦克维
mài kè wéi

(Timothy) McVeigh

杨维
yáng wéi

Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist

高纤维
gāo xiān wéi

high fiber

维尔纽斯
wéi ěr niǔ sī

Vilnius, capital of Lithuania

维拉
wéi lā

Vala (Middle-earth)

勒维纳斯
lè wéi nà sī

Levinas (philosopher)

维珍尼亚州
wéi zhēn ní yà zhōu

Virginia (US state) (Hong Kong, Macau)

维京人
wéi jīng rén

Viking

纤维素
xiān wéi sù

cellulose

维多利亚港
wéi duō lì yà gǎng

Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong

纤维状
xiān wéi zhuàng

fibrous

卡纳维尔角
kǎ nà wéi ěr jiǎo

Cape Canaveral, Florida

鲁德维格
lǔ dé wéi gé

Ludwig (name)

米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉
mǐ gé ěr · dé · sāi wàn tí sī · sà wéi dé lā

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[táng jí hē dé]

进退维谷
jìn tuì wéi gǔ

no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma

维纶
wéi lún

vinylon, synthetic fiber made from polyvinyl alcohol (loanword)

彼得罗维奇
bǐ dé luó wéi qí

Petrovich (name)

诺维乔克
nuò wéi qiáo kè

Novichok (nerve agent)

斯堪的纳维亚
sī kān dì nà wéi yà

Scandinavia

路德维希港
lù dé wéi xī gǎng

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim

维特根斯坦
wéi tè gēn sī tǎn

Wittgenstein (name)

戴维斯杯
dài wéi sī bēi

Davis Cup (international tennis team competition)

维管束植物
wéi guǎn shù zhí wù

vascular plants

碳链纤维
tàn liàn xiān wéi

carbon chain fiber

思维
sī wéi

(line of) thought

维基数据
wéi jī shù jù

Wikistats, (stats.wikimedia.org), online tool providing statistics for Wikimedia projects

中间纤维
zhōng jiān xiān wéi

intermediate filament

维扬
wéi yáng

Weiyang district of Yangzhou city 揚州市|扬州市[yáng zhōu shì], Jiangsu

维吾尔
wéi wú ěr

Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang

康思维恩格
kāng sī wéi ēn gé

Kongsvinger (city in Hedemark, Norway)

醋酸纤维
cù suān xiān wéi

cellulose acetate (used for film and fiber)

万维天罗地网
wàn wéi tiān luó dì wǎng

World Wide Web (WWW)

怪人奥尔·扬科维奇
guài rén ào ěr · yáng kē wéi qí

\Weird Al\ Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs

高维代数簇
gāo wéi dài shù cù

(math.) higher dimensional algebraic variety

麦尔维尔
mài ěr wéi ěr

Melville (name)

步履维艰
bù lǚ wéi jiān

to have difficulty walking (idiom)

蒙得维的亚
méng dé wéi dì yà

Montevideo, capital of Uruguay

维密
wéi mì

Victoria's Secret

维管
wéi guǎn

vascular

奥维耶多
ào wéi yē duō

Oviedo (Asturian: Uviéu), capital of Asturias in northwest Spain

维恩图解
wéi ēn tú jiě

Venn diagram

戴维
dài wéi

Davy

玻璃纤维
bō lí xiān wéi

fiberglass

特拉维夫
tè lā wéi fū

Tel Aviv

苏维埃
sū wéi āi

Soviet (council)