Chinese Character Wiki
位

wèi

position

Depicts a person (亻) standing (立) in a specific position.

Components
亻 iconic component

亻  Iconic component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

立 iconic component

立  Iconic component

lì

  

stand

Evolution

位 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
位 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
位 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
位 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

位  

wèi

throne; position, post; rank, status; seat; position; location; place; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential

Most common words with 位
Freq.
Word
Meaning

位

position

位置

position

单位

unit (of measure)

各位

everybody

地位

position

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

莅

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

涖

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷrəp-s (< *ɢʷəʔ-rəp-s ?)

hwijH

wèi

standing, position


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 89.7966% of movies

251st most common character in movies

182nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F4D

Shuowen

“位，列中庭之左右謂之位。从人、立。”


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