位 (wèi) — Chinese Character

位

wèi

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

Radical: 亻 HSK 2 q, g ideographic

Components & Etymology

位 decomposes into the following components:

亻立

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 位.

C位

c wèi

万位

wàn wèi

上位

shàng wèi

个位

gè wèi

仓位

cāng wèi

价位

jià wèi

位于

wèi yú

位元

wèi yuán

位列

wèi liè

位图

wèi tú

位子

wèi zi

位居

wèi jū

Characters that share the radical 亻.

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