位 wèi in a sentence
Place (location - position - mw for persons)
位 (wèi) means Place (location - position - mw for persons). Below are 18 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这 位 经理比我年轻。
Zhè wèi jīnglǐ bǐ wǒ niánqīng.
This manager is younger than me.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 年轻
我的邻居是一 位 老师。
Wǒ de línjū shì yí wèi lǎoshī.
My neighbour is a teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 邻居
我在超市遇到了一 位 老同学。
Wǒ zài chāoshì yùdào le yí wèi lǎo tóngxué.
I ran into an old classmate at the supermarket.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 遇到
From the graded readers
我旁边坐着一 位 老人。
wǒ pángbiān zuòzhe yī wèi lǎorén.
An older man was sitting next to me.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
原来的 位 置上现在是一个超市。
yuánlái de / dì wèizhi shàng xiànzài shì yīgè chāo shì.
In its place there was now a supermarket.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
我的座 位 在窗户旁边，我很高兴。
wǒ de(possessive) zuòwèi zài chuāng hù pángbiān, wǒ hěn gāoxìng.
My seat was by the window, which pleased me.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
我敲了门，开门的是一 位 老先生。
wǒ qiāo le / liǎo / liào mén, kāimén de / dì shì yī wèi lǎo xiānsheng.
I knocked, and an elderly man opened the door.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
为了一个字，一 位 八十三岁的老人写了两遍。
wèile yīgè zì, yī wèi bāshí sān suì de / dì lǎorén xiěle liǎng biàn.
For the sake of one character, an eighty-three-year-old had written it out twice.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
走到三楼的时候，我看见一 位 阿姨站在那里休息。
zǒudào sān lóu de / dì shíhou, wǒ kànjiàn yī wèi ā / ē yí zhàn zài nàli xiūxi.
On the third floor I saw a woman standing there resting.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
那 位 老先生跟我说：“我七年前开始的。我唯一后悔的是没有更早开始。”
nàiwèi lǎo xiānsheng gēn wǒ shuō:" wǒ qī niánqián kāishǐ de / dì. wǒ wéi / wěi yī hòuhuǐ de / dì shì méiyǒu gèng / gēng zǎo kāishǐ."
The elderly gentleman said to me, "I started seven years ago. My only regret is not starting sooner."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
From the travel phrasebook
我的座 位 在几号车厢？
Wǒ de zuòwèi zài jǐ hào chēxiāng?
Which carriage is my seat in?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
Words that contain 位
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 位
How is 位 used in a sentence?
This page shows 18 sentences using 位 (wèi, "Place (location - position - mw for persons)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 位 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 位 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 位 an HSK word?
Yes — 位 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 位?
The dictionary page for 位 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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