位

位 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿 (OYT), four-corner 2021₈, composition ⿰亻立)

• 𭂏, 𠴖, 𭠿, 涖, 𡾵, 𪝯, 𡸏, 莅, 𬕅, 𠑖

• KangXi: page 98, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 503
• Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 138, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4F4D

• 位 on Wikidata.Wikidata

Historical forms of the character 位
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Libian (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Clerical script
Oracle bone script j18932 Bronze inscriptions b12296 Small seal script s05743 Transcribed ancient scripts L36336 L36337 L36338 L36339 L21781 L21782 L21783 L21784 L21785
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷrɯbs) : semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb, “stand”). Often simply written as 立 in idiomatic expressions such as 即位 (jíwèi) in Western Zhou inscriptions.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-r(j)ap (“to stand”). Derived from 立 (OC *rɯb). Mei (2012) lists it among the possible nasal-prefixed verb forms (Old Chinese *N-k- > Middle Chinese *ɦ-, possibly forming a stative). Suffixed with a nominalizing *-s, it takes the sense "the place/rank/status one holds".

位

1. position; location
2. title; official position
3. seat; seating
4. throne; royal seat
5. rank; grade; status
6. standard; rule
7. (honorific) people
8. (mathematics) digit; place

   三位數／三位数  ―  sān wèi shù  ―  three-digit number

   進位／进位  ―  jìnwèi  ―  to carry (by one or more places)

9. (often polite) Classifier for persons.

   這位歌手／这位歌手  ―  zhè wèi gēshǒu  ―  this singer

   那位先生  ―  nà wèi xiānshēng  ―  that man

10. to be situated at; to be located at
11. to arrange; to set out
12. (information theory) bit (the smallest unit of storage in a digital computer)
13. a surname

• (location):

• (title): (literary) 地步 (dìbù), 地位 (dìwèi)
• (seat):

• (throne):

• (bit): 比特 (bǐtè), 位元 (wèiyuán)

• “位”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #2873”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 位, Jōyō)^{←くらゐ (kurawi, historical)}

Middle Chinese 位

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) い​ [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [i]

位(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. rank, place

位(い) • (-i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. rank, place

   第(だい)一(いち)位(い)である。

   Dai-ichi-i de aru.

   To be ranked first.

   二(に)位(い)になる。

   Ni-i ni naru.

   To take second place.

   十(じゅう)位(い)に落(お)ちる。

   Jū-i ni ochiru.

   To drop to tenth place.

2. decimal place
3. ghosts

From Middle Chinese 位 (MC ɦˠiuɪ^H).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɥi] ~ [y]
• Phonetic hangul: [위]

Wikisource 位 (eumhun 자리 위 (jari wi))

1. Hanja form^? of 위 (“status, position”). [noun]
2. Hanja form^? of 위 (“rank, place”). [counter]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

位: Hán Nôm readings: vị[1], vì[2]

1. chữ Hán form of vị (“location; place”).
2. chữ Hán form of vị (“position; rank”).
3. (honorific, formal classifier) chữ Hán form of vị (“person; a/an (important person)”).
4. (archaic) chữ Hán form of vì (“throne, royal rule”).

• Nom Foundation

位

1. Sawndip form of gyaeuj (“head; headhair”)