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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 首位

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
首位 shǒu wèi - first place

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
- - 40,761 6,756 15,035

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
首 shǒu- head
- chief
- first (occasion, thing etc)
- classifier for poems, songs etc
位 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 首位

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
首位 - - 40,761 6,756 15,035