GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 477

位

位 is read as wèi.

Pinyin

wèi

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 位

Basic meaning

throne; position, post; rank, status; seat

Five element

Water

Origin

Time: Eastern Han textual layer, 25-220 CE

Place: Shache and Khotan in the Eastern Han Western Regions account; later Han enfeoffment context for Shoujie Hou Rong.

Origin note

Wei/位 is a rare surname with a concrete historical source layer, not just the ordinary word position. The source-backed account comes from Eastern Han Western Regions history: Wei Shi, brother of the Shache king Xian, was installed as king of Khotan; after his death, his son Rong submitted to Han and was made Shoujie Hou. Later surname references infer a Wei surname line from that personal name. The page keeps this as a historical-person-name layer and does not claim a classic Baijiaxing position.

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