位

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

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

The place where a person 亻 stands 立

Components 亻立

position · Heisig RSH #807

人 person + vase

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
三位一体	Sān wèi Yī tǐ	Holy Trinity; trinity
自发电位	zì fā diàn wèi	electroencephalogram (EEG)
地理定位	dì lǐ dìng wèi	geolocation
中位数	zhōng wèi shù	(statistics) median
数位化	shù wèi huà	(Tw) to digitize
分位数	fēn wèi shù	quantile (statistics)
学士学位	xué shì xué wèi	bachelor's degree
天文单位	tiān wén dān wèi	astronomical unit (AU)
电位器	diàn wèi qì	potentiometer
市场定位	shì chǎng dìng wèi	positioning (marketing)
位子	wèi zi	place; seat
本位主义	běn wèi zhǔ yì	selfish departmentalism; departmental selfishness
区位	qū wèi	geographical location; (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區\|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used t…
水位	shuǐ wèi	water level
头位	tóu wèi	(car racing) pole position; (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth)
金本位	jīn běn wèi	gold standard (monetary system)
学位	xué wèi	academic degree; place in school
地位	dì wèi	position; status; place; CL:個\|个[ge4]
机位	jī wèi	camera position; airline seat; seat reservation; aircraft parking position
多方位	duō fāng wèi	many-sided; versatile; various aspects; all-round; multidirectional