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
to be located at; to be situated at; to lie
to have reached the highest official positions
to have reached the highest official positions
position effect
position effect
plane (of existence)
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
inversion
borrow from next digit in subtraction
parking location; parking bay
parking location; parking bay
price level
nationally protected cultural relic site
nationally protected cultural relic site
GPS (Global Positioning System)
GPS (Global Positioning System)
global positioning system (GPS)
global positioning system (GPS)
8-bit (computing)
metric units
metric units
64-bit (computing)
redundant position
all of you present; ladies and gentlemen
to assign sb to a seat; to be allocated a place