| 原 | yuán wèi | original position / (in) the same place / normal position / the place where one currently is / in situ | 
| 原 | Yuán | surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara | 
| 原 | yuán | former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source | 
| 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 |