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

person (亻) + standing (立) = one's position or place

A person standing somewhere occupies a position — physical, social, or ranked. This concrete image extends naturally to honorific counting of people and abstract notions like electrical potential.

亻+立→位
亻PersonSemantic
立Standing uprightSemantic

请问,这个位子有人坐吗?

qǐng wèn , zhè ge wèi zi yǒu rén zuò ma ?

excuse me, is someone sitting in this seat?

前排有三位老师在认真听报告。

qián pái yǒu sān wèi lǎo shī zài rèn zhēn tīng bào gào 。

in the front row, three teachers were listening attentively to the report.

Words with 位

段位

duàn wèi

rank

灵位

líng wèi

memorial tablet

订位

dìng wèi

to reserve a seat

事业单位

shì yè dān wèi

public institution

首位

shǒu wèi

first place

十位

shí wèi

the tens place (or column) in the decimal system

各就各位

gè jiù gè wèi

(of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom)

吨位

dūn wèi

tonnage

位置

wèi zhi

position

单位

dān wèi

unit (of measure)

复位

fù wèi

to restore sb or sth to its original position

原位

yuán wèi

original position

More characters with 亻

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