位
Meanings
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- 1.position
- 2.location
- 3.place
- 4.seat
- 5.classifier for people (honorific)
- 6.classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
- 7.(physics) potential
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Wiktionary
- 1.position; location; spot
- 2.title; official position
- 3.seat; seating
- 4.throne; royal seat
- 5.rank; grade; status
- 6.standard; rule
- 7.people
- 8.digit; place
- 9.Classifier for persons.
- 10.to be situated at; to be located at
- 11.to arrange; to set out
- 12.space
- 13.bit (the smallest unit of storage in a digital computer)
- 14.a surname, Wei
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢʷrɯbs): semantic 人 (“man”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb, “stand”). Often simply written as 立 in idiomatic expressions such as 即位 (jíwèi) in Western Zhou inscriptions. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp (“to stand”). Derived from 立 (OC *rɯb). Mei (2012) lists it among the possible nasal-prefixed verb forms (Old Chinese *N-k- > Middle Chinese *ɦ-, possibly forming a stative). Suffixed with a nominalizing *-s, it takes the sense "the place/rank/status one holds".
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我是位女士。
I'm a lady.
她是位老師。
She is a teacher.
日本位於北半球。
Japan is located in the Northern Hemisphere.
汤姆是位政治家。
Tom is a politician.
這位老人餓死了。
The old man starved to death.
這位老人下了公車。
The old man got off the bus.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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