(wèi) - polite measure word for people, place, position, seat in Mandarin
wèiTraditional: 位
Translation
polite measure word for people, place, position, seat
Word origin
An ideograph combining 人 (rén, person, as the standing-figure radical) with 立 (lì, to stand), originally depicting a person standing in their proper place at court.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 人 (rén, person) + 立 (lì, to stand)
Stroke order
位
Examples
？
May I ask who you are?
访。
Three guests came to visit today.
。
This teacher is very popular with the pupils.
座。
Everyone please sit in your own seat.
。
He holds a high position in the company.
位 (wèi) is the polite measure word for people, used in place of 个 to show respect, as in 这位老师. It also means a position, place, or seat in compounds such as 位置 and 座位.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 位.
Used in
Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(5)Chinese Measure Words (Mandarin Classifiers): The Core Dozen, Which One Your Noun Takes, and the Safe Default
Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words
The Mandarin 以 (yǐ) Family: 以为, 以及, 以便, 以免, 以来 and 以...为...
The Mandarin 于 (yú) Family: 对于, 关于, 由于, 至于, 属于, 位于, 终于
The Mandarin 者 (zhě) Suffix: 作者, 读者, 前者, and Naming the One Who Does It
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