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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 方位

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
方位 fāng wèi - direction
- points of the compass
- bearing
- position
- azimuth

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 - 6,672 12,554 16,319

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fāng- surname Fang
fāng- square
- power or involution (math.)
- upright
- honest
- fair and square
- direction
- side
- party (to a contract, dispute etc)
- place
- method
- prescription (medicine)
- just when
- only or just
- classifier for square things
- abbr. for square or cubic meter
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

Other Words Containing 方位

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
方位 6 - 6,672 12,554 16,319
全方位 - 8 16,895 6,822 11,782
方位角 - - 72,236 83,180 -