How to write 位 (wèi, “position”)

位 (wèi), an HSK 2 character, means “position”, “location” and “place”. It is also a measure word: CC-CEDICT pairs it with 45 nouns, 主席, 代表 and 作家 among them. As a left-right character it splits into 亻 (“person”, the radical), strokes 1–2; 立 (“to stand”), strokes 3–7, written the left part first. On its own it is an HSK 2 word; it also forms 车位 (“parking spot”), 单位 (“unit”) and 各位 (“everybody”). Japanese reads it i, “rank”, as a JLPT N3 kanji.

Pinyin: wèi
Strokes: 7
HSK: 2
Radical: 亻 (“person”)

Stroke by stroke

Left-falling stroke ㇒top leftdown and left
Vertical ㇑leftdownwards
Vertical ㇑topdown and right
Horizontal ㇐toprightwards
Dot ㇔centerdown and right
Left-falling stroke ㇒rightdownwards
Horizontal ㇐bottom leftrightwards

Names of the strokes

Japanese and Chinese

Japanese and Chinese draw all 7 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.

Japanese · KanjiVG · 7 strokes

Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 7 strokes

位 as a measure word

主席 — chairperson
代表 — representative
作家 — author
先生 — teacher
公仆 — public servant
同学 — to study at the same school

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Pinyin and meaning

Pinyin	Meanings	Traditional	In words
wèi fourth tone	position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific)	—	车位单位各位座位

HSK 2025 syllabus: level 2
2021 standard: level 2
HSK 2.0: in a level 3 word
Words with it: 219 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 位

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
位	wèi	position; location HSK 2
车位車位	chēwèi	parking spot; unloading point HSK 4
单位單位	dānwèi	unit; unit (group of people as a whole) HSK 4
各位	gèwèi	everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc) HSK 4
座位	zuòwèi	seat HSK 4
地位	dìwèi	position; status HSK 5
位于位於	wèiyú	to be located at; to be situated at HSK 5
位置	wèizhì	position; place HSK 5
学位學位	xuéwèi	academic degree; place in school HSK 6
定位	dìngwèi	to orientate; to position HSK 6

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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