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位

Mandarin · pinyin wèi

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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位: wèi · throne; position, post; rank, status; seat

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4 · wei4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

wai2 · wai6

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character

position; location; spot
title; official position
seat; seating
throne; royal seat
rank; grade; status
standard; rule
(honorific) people
(mathematics) digit; place
(often polite) Classifier for persons.
to be situated at; to be located at
to arrange; to set out
(Cantonese) space
(information theory) bit (the smallest unit of storage in a digital computer)
a surname, Wei

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