位

wèi = w + ei4

position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

位 = 亻 + 立 : An armchair.

位 = 亻 + 立 : Rosa Luxemburg visits Willy Walrus in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He sits in his place--an armchair--like a king, and Rosa presents him a vase.

位 character breakdown

位
- 亻
  - 丨
  - 丿
- 立
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶
  - 䒑
    - 一
    - 丷

rén = r + (e)n2

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

亻 = 丿 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).

lì = li + Ø4

to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately

立 = 䒑 + 亠 : Li Qing Zhao hides some weed in a vase in the space station's bathroom. To get the weed there, she transports it under her beret.

Characters with 位 as component

lì = li + Ø4

variant of 蒞|莅[li4], to attend

lì = li + Ø4

river in Hebei

lì = li + Ø4

to attend (an official function) / to be present / to administer / to approach (esp. as administrator)

Words with 位

to get to the intended location / to be in place / to be in position / precise / well (done)

geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set)

redundant position

quantile (statistics)

ladies and gentlemen / all of you present

(Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot

promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)

the tens place (or column) in the decimal system

ladies and gentlemen; all of you present

metric units

64-bit (computing)

Sentences with 位

zhòng

wèi

xia̅n

gu̅

jià

dào

The goddesses are here.