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Chinese symbol for “position”

位
wèi
position; location; place; seat

The closest CC-CEDICT match for position is 位 (wèi), defined as: position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

位 wèi
seat, throne; rank, status; position, location
radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “position”

WordPinyinMeaning
地位dì wèiposition; status
位置wèi zhiposition; place
立场 (立場)lì chǎngposition; standpoint
职位 (職位)zhí wèiposition; post; job
阵地 (陣地)zhèn dì(military) position; front

Related words

Other words that share a character with 位.

WordPinyinMeaning
单位 (單位)dān wèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
位于 (位於)wèi yúto be located at; to be situated at
地位dì wèiposition; status
位置wèi zhiposition; place
这位 (這位)zhè wèithis (person)
各位gè wèieverybody; all (guests, colleagues etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “position”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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