位
position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #284 U+4F4D
How 位 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The place where a person 亻 stands 立
How to remember it
position · Heisig RSH #807
人 person + vase
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 位
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三位一体 | Sān wèi Yī tǐ | Holy Trinity; trinity |
| 自发电位 | zì fā diàn wèi | electroencephalogram (EEG) |
| 地理定位 | dì lǐ dìng wèi | geolocation |
| 中位数 | zhōng wèi shù | (statistics) median |
| 数位化 | shù wèi huà | (Tw) to digitize |
| 分位数 | fēn wèi shù | quantile (statistics) |
| 学士学位 | xué shì xué wèi | bachelor's degree |
| 天文单位 | tiān wén dān wèi | astronomical unit (AU) |
| 电位器 | diàn wèi qì | potentiometer |
| 市场定位 | shì chǎng dìng wèi | positioning (marketing) |
| 位子 | wèi zi | place; seat |
| 本位主义 | běn wèi zhǔ yì | selfish departmentalism; departmental selfishness |
| 区位 | qū wèi | geographical location; (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used t… |
| 水位 | shuǐ wèi | water level |
| 头位 | tóu wèi | (car racing) pole position; (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth) |
| 金本位 | jīn běn wèi | gold standard (monetary system) |
| 学位 | xué wèi | academic degree; place in school |
| 地位 | dì wèi | position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 机位 | jī wèi | camera position; airline seat; seat reservation; aircraft parking position |
| 多方位 | duō fāng wèi | many-sided; versatile; various aspects; all-round; multidirectional |