Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 位

Modern (Beijing) reading: wèi

Preclassic Old Chinese: wrǝts (< *-ps)

Classic Old Chinese: wrǝć

Western Han Chinese: wrǝś

Eastern Han Chinese: wrǝś

Early Postclassic Chinese: wiś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: wìj

Late Postclassic Chinese: wì

Middle Chinese: wì

English meaning : position, place, seat; high position, throne

Russian meaning[s]: 1) место; позиция; пост; 2) титул, ранг; 3) помещать(ся); занимать должность; 4) лицо, особа, персона; 5) счетный суффикс уважаемых лиц; 6) грам. падеж

Comments: A rather unique case of prefixed *w- (for the root cf. 立 *rǝp). Standard Sino-Viet. is vị.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 541

Karlgren code: 0539 a

Vietnamese reading: vai

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 310

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 位

MC description : 止合三去至云

ZIHUI: 0143 1259

Beijing: uei 3

Jinan: uei 3

Xi'an: uei 3

Taiyuan: vei 3

Hankou: uei 3

Chengdu: uei 3

Yangzhou: uǝi 3

Suzhou: ɦue_ 32

Wenzhou: vu 32

Changsha: uei 31 (lit.); uei 32

Shuangfeng: ui 32

Nanchang: ui 31

Meixian: vui 3

Guangzhou: uai 32

Xiamen: ui 32 (lit.)

Chaozhou: ui 32

Fuzhou: uei 32

Shanghai: ue_ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: uei 3

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