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部位

bù wèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

部位 (bù wèi) means "a part, location (esp. body)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 部位 means

1. part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)

The characters in 部位

• 部bùministry; department; section
• 位wèiposition; location; place

Example sentences

• 我们的新总部位于东京。
  Wǒmen de xīn zǒngbù wèiyú Dōngjīng.
  Our new head office is in Tokyo.

Sounds the same

Read bù wèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不畏unafraid; to defy
• 不谓cannot be deemed; unexpectedly

Where 部位 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bù–cái (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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