位wèimeasure word for people (polite)
How 位 is written
Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.
Examples
请坐在这位先生旁边。
Qǐng zuò zài zhè wèi xiānshēng pángbiān.
Please sit next to this gentleman.
- 请qǐngto ask
- 坐zuòto sit; to travel by
- 在zàito be at; in
- 这zhèthis
- 位wèimeasure word for people (polite)
- 先生xiānshēngMr; sir
- 旁边pángbiānbeside
那位老师很有名。
Nà wèi lǎoshī hěn yǒumíng.
That teacher is very well known.
- 那nàthat
- 位wèimeasure word for people (polite)
- 老师lǎoshīteacher
- 很hěnvery
- 有名yǒumíngfamous
Not to be confused with
Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.
- 喂
- 为
- 胃