HSK 5 · Places

位于 wèiyú “to be located at” in Chinese

Traditional 位於

What 位于 means

  1. to be located at
  2. to be situated at
  3. to lie

How to say 位于

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale位wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale于yú2nd tone, rising

位于 in a sentence

  1. 图书馆位于城市中心。

    Túshūguǎn wèiyú chéngshì zhōngxīn.

    The library is in the centre of the city.

    Sentence #4264881 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 印度位于亚洲。

    Yìndù wèiyú Yàzhōu.

    India is in Asia.

    Sentence #3378179 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们的房子位于交通便利的地方。

    Wǒmen de fángzi wèiyú jiāotōng biànlì de dìfang.

    Our house is in a spot with good transport links.

    Sentence #839588 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 位于 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.

The character 于 (yú) with each of its parts in a different colour
于yúto go
  • 二two · èr
  • 亅hook · jué

How to write 位于

位 7 strokes · 于 3 strokes

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

Words related to 位于

Words with 位

位wèi · position座位zuòwèi · seat各位gèwèi · everyone (polite address)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

Words with 于

终于zhōngyú · at last关于guānyú · about对于duìyú · regarding由于yóuyú · due to于是yúshì · thereupon善于shànyú · to be good at等于děngyú · to equal属于shǔyú · to be classified as在于zàiyú · to lie in至于zhìyú · as for

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FAQs

位于 (wèiyú) means “to be located at” or “to be situated at”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wèiyú: wèi with a 4th tone, then yú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 位于 is written 位於. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weiyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 位于 from the suggestions. Typing weiyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
位于 is an HSK 5 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.