HSK 3 · Common Objects

位 wèi “position” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 位 means

  1. position
  2. location
  3. polite mw for people
  4. place
  5. seat
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • classifier for people (honorific)
  • classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)

How to say 位

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale位wèi4th tone, falling

位 in a sentence

  1. 你们是几位？

    Nǐmen shì jǐ wèi?

    How many of you are there?

    Sentence #419685 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 感谢你们两位。

    Gǎnxiè nǐmen liǎng wèi.

    Thank you both.

    Sentence #4900940 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我听说你是位艺术家。

    Wǒ tīngshuō nǐ shì wèi yìshùjiā.

    I hear you’re an artist.

    Sentence #13071571 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 位 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 位 (wèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
位wèiposition
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 立stand · lì

Memory aidA person 亻 standing 立 in their place: a position, a seat.

How to write 位

位 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

位 (wèi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 位 (wèi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 位

Words with 位

座位zuòwèi · seat各位gèwèi · everyone (polite address)位于wèiyú · to be located at位置wèizhi · position单位dānwèi · unit (of measurement)地位dìwèi · position诸位zhūwèi · everyone方位fāngwèi · position部位bùwèi · position学位xuéwèi · academic degree

More words: Everyday Things

水平shuǐpíng · level条tiáo · strip碗wǎn · bowl万wàn · ten thousand习惯xíguàn · habit信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card元yuán · Chinese monetary unit张zhāng · mw for flat objects

FAQs

位 (wèi) means “position” or “location”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it wèi: wèi with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 位 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 位 from the suggestions. Typing wei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
位 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.