Surname · Chinese · za
位
“to stand”
位 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Zhuang.
Chinese and zaWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
位 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp, meaning “to stand.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp (“to stand”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
位’s family of names
In Zhuang usage, 位 as a surname has a related form in Vae.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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