wèi

position; place; location

HSK 3 #182

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 182nd character
Radical ⼈ (9.5)
Strokes 7
Index # 784

Definitions

位 wèi
  1. 1. position
  2. 2. place
  3. 3. location
  4. 4. seat
  5. 5. classifier for people (honorific)
  6. 6. classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. 7. (physics) potential

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Words containing 位

Word Meaning
numeral base system; place-value system
to abdicate; to resign a position
to abdicate; to resign a position
unit of weight
unit of weight
gold exchange standard (economics)
gold exchange standard (economics)
gold standard
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Silver Standard (monetary standard)
berth; bunk
out of alignment; to misplace
unit of length
unit of length
tablet and altar honoring a great benefactor (idiom)
tablet and altar honoring a great benefactor (idiom)
anionic site
anionic site
cryptic epitope in immunology
hidden epitope on a protein
dual degree (academic)
electric potential; voltage
potentiometer