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地位 (dì wèi): meaning and stroke order

地位 (dì wèi) means position, status, place, 个.

地位

Simplified
地位
Traditional
地位 (same form)
Pinyin
dì wèi

Stroke order of 地位

地

  • de -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
  • dì earth; ground
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

位

  • wèi position; location
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 地位

  1. dì wèi
    • position
    • status
    • place
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

地
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 也 on the right
位
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 立 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

地位 in our stories

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  • 人们常用“鲤鱼跃龙门”比喻考试成功、地位一下子提高。可在韩青的学堂里，龙门象征的不只是成功，还有蜕变的代价，和那条默默养活大家的河。

    rénmen cháng yòng lǐyú yuè lóngmén bǐyù kǎoshì chénggōng dìwèi yíxiàzi tígāo kě zài Hán Qīng de xuétáng lǐ Lóngmén xiàngzhēng de bù zhǐshì chénggōng háiyǒu tuìbiàn de dàijià hé nà tiáo mòmò yǎnghuo dàjiā de hé

    People often use "the carp leaps the Dragon Gate" for passing an examination and a sudden rise in status. But in Han Qing's school the Dragon Gate stood not only for success: it also stood for the price of transformation, and for the river that quietly keeps everyone alive.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 地位

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).