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位
wèi
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)
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
上位
shàngwèi
top seat
位元
wèiyuán
bit (computing)
位列
wèiliè
to rank
位图
wèitú
raster graphics
位子
wèizi
place
位居
wèijū
to be located at
位形
wèixíng
configuration
位于
wèiyú
to be located at
位次
wèicì
place (in numbered sequence)
位移
wèiyí
displacement (vector)
位置
wèizhi
position
个位
gèwèi
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
倒位
dàowèi
inversion
借位
jièwèi
in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place
价位
jiàwèi
price level
冗位
rǒngwèi
redundant position
列位
lièwèi
ladies and gentlemen
到位
dàowèi
to get to the intended location
区位
qūwèi
location
十位
shíwèi
the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
Example Sentences (4)
我听一位医生说过一句话："最好的医生是自己，最好的药是时间，最好的运动是散步。"
Wǒ tīng yí wèi yīshēng shuō guò yí jù huà: "Zuì hǎo de yīshēng shì zìjǐ, zuì hǎo de yào shì shíjiān, zuì hǎo de yùndòng shì sànbù."
I once heard a doctor say: "The best doctor is yourself, the best medicine is time, the best exercise is walking."
Text 5
快给我看看。骑得最快的那位是谁？
Kuài gěi wǒ kàn kàn. Qí de zuì kuài de nà wèi shì shéi?
Quick, let me see. Who is the fastest rider?
Text 2
有一位教授用数字来说明健康有多么重要：要是健康是1，其他都是1后面的0；如果没有1，不管有多少0也没用。
Yǒu yí wèi jiàoshòu yòng shùzì lái shuōmíng jiànkāng yǒu duōme zhòngyào: yàoshi jiànkāng shì 1, qítā dōu shì 1 hòumiàn de 0; rúguǒ méiyǒu 1, bùguǎn yǒu duōshǎo 0 yě méiyòng.
A professor used numbers to explain how important health is: if health is 1, everything else is the zeros after 1; if there is no 1, no matter how many zeros there are, it's useless.
Text 4
对。如果希望有一个优秀的孩子，你就要先成为一位优秀的父亲或者母亲。
Duì. Rúguǒ xīwàng yǒu yí gè yōuxiù de háizi, nǐ jiù yào xiān chéngwéi yí wèi yōuxiù de fùqin huòzhě mǔqin.
Right. If you want to have an excellent child, you must first become an excellent father or mother.
Text 1
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 181
- Word Frequency Rank
- 445 of 84,292