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位

wèi · wei

Same in simplified and traditional Chinese

HSK 2Old HSK 3

Meaning

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  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)
  7. (physics) potential

In a sentence

2 examples
01

你(nǐ)是(shì)位(wèi)了(liǎo)不(bu)起(qǐ)的(de)女(nǚ)性(xìng)。

You're a wonderful woman.

Tatoeba: Chinese by verdastelo9604 · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

我(wǒ)朋(péng)友(you)的(de)父(fù)亲(qīn)是(shì)位(wèi)有(yǒu)名(míng)的(de)作(zuò)家(jiā)。

My friend's father is a famous novelist.

Tatoeba: Chinese by DaoSeng · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

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