位
位 in English
- position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“喂，哪一位啊？”
"Hello, who is this?"
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一位医生告诉过我，吃鸡蛋对我的健康有害。
A doctor told me that eating eggs was bad for me.
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一位王子骑着白马到来了。
A prince arrived, riding a white horse.
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为了弄到一个好位子，我很早就出门了。
I left home early to get a good seat.
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为何两位总是在打架？
Why are you two always fighting?
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他们到位了实行新概念的广告策略。
They implemented a communication policy so as to promote their new concept.
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他同意幫助這位老太太。
He consented to help the old lady.
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他向那位女士问好。
He said hello to the woman.