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
cabin seat; cabin berth; shipping space
offside (sports)
first place
ship's position
to succeed to the throne; accession
berth
to settle a matter in one go
tonnage
power and position (politics)
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
location; geographical position
official rank; fame and position
reigning (monarch); on the throne
rank; (Japanese martial arts and board games) dan; class
place (in numbered sequence); degree on employment scale
official post
imperial throne
azimuth
standard; one's own department or unit
memorial tablet
phase difference
ancestral tablet; spirit tablet
electric potential; voltage
memorial tablet
phoneme