漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
位: rank, grade
Also: throne, crown, about, some
JLPT N37 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 立 is drawn in
7 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 位置いちposition, location
- 地位ちい(social) status
- 順位じゅんいrank [n.]
- 優位ゆういsuperiority
- 単位たんいunit, credit (in school)
- 一位いちいfirst place
くらいkurai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 位くらいrank, about, almost
ぐらいgurai · kun'yomi
- 十分位じゅっぷんぐらいabout 10 minutes
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 man (meaning) + 立 stand (sound)
Often simply written as 立 in idiomatic expressions such as 即位 in Western Zhou inscriptions.
Source: Wiktionary, 位 (rev. 92719761), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side位 rank · 亻
vs辛 spicy · 十In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wèi
Same form: 位 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 位 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 位 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wèi most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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