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位
Mandarin (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ
Mandarin (Pinyin): wèi
Cantonese (Jyutping): wai2
Definitions:

  1. position

  2. location

  3. place

  4. seat

  5. classifier for people (honorific)

  6. classifier for binary bits (eg 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)

  7. (physics) potential

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Chinese characters used in this word

位 rank, grade, throne, crown, about, some, position, post, status, seat
Readings
Mandarin: ㄨㄟˋ (wèi), ㄌㄧˋ (lì)
Cantonese: wai6
Japanese: イ (i) / くらい (kurai)、 ぐらい (gurai)、 くらいする (kuraisuru)
Korean: 위 (wi)
Vietnamese: vị

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