Meaning & readings
rank, grade, throne, crown, about, some
On’yomi イ
Kun’yomi くらい、ぐらい
Nanori ぞき
Origin
The character 位 combines a person (the left component) with the idea of standing or being in a fixed place (立, meaning to stand). Together, these parts suggest a person occupying a specific position or rank—the notion that someone stands in a particular role or status within a hierarchy. This visual idea of a person "standing" in a defined spot naturally extended to mean rank, throne, or grade. The character essentially pictures a person's established place in an order or structure.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 亻
- 立
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #276 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+04F4D