Measure word
- 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested in use
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 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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Muiriel现在20岁了。
Muiriel is 20 now.
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上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。
There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.
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不好意思，现在线路繁忙。
Sorry, the line is busy now.
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为什么现在做那个？
Why do that now?
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从前人们害怕未来。现在，是未来该害怕人们。
People used to be afraid of the future. Today, it is the future that should be afraid of people.
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他常常出现在电视上。
He often appears on TV.
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他把自己的钱包掉到地上，现在是我的了。
He dropped his wallet, and now it's mine.
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他曾是我的学生，现在在教我的孩子们。
He was my student. Now he teaches my children.