挡位 (擋位)
dǎng wèi
Pinyin

Definition

挡位 (擋位)
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dǎng wèi
  1. (in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc)
  2. (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc)
  3. (electric fan etc) speed setting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

位
wèi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 location
  3. 3 place
  4. 4 seat
  5. 5 classifier for people (honorific)
  6. 6 classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. 7 (physics) potential
位置
wèi zhi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 place
  3. 3 seat
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
各位
gè wèi
  1. 1 everybody
  2. 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
  3. 3 all of you
位子
wèi zi
  1. 1 place
  2. 2 seat
位于
wèi yú
  1. 1 to be located at
  2. 2 to be situated at
  3. 3 to lie

Idioms (5)

人位相宜
rén wèi xiāng yí
  1. 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
加官进位
jiā guān jìn wèi
  1. 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
各就各位
gè jiù gè wèi
  1. 1 (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom)
  2. 2 (athletics) On your mark!
尸位素餐
shī wèi sù cān
  1. 1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)
长生禄位
cháng shēng lù wèi
  1. 1 tablet and altar honoring a great benefactor (idiom)