上位
shàng wèi
Pinyin

Definition

上位
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shàng wèi
  1. seat of honor
  2. person in a high-ranking position
  3. to be promoted to a more senior role
  4. (genetics) epistatic

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
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

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud

Sample Sentences

你少来了，我对你付出多少你自己心里清楚。姓魏的，虽然靠潜规则上位，我们女人多少会有点吃亏。但你别忘了，最近的一次我全都拍下来了。
nǐ shǎo lái le ，wǒ duì nǐ fùchū duōshao nǐ zìjǐ xīnli qīngchǔ 。xìng Wèi de ，suīrán kào qiánguīzé shàngwèi ，wǒmen nǚrén duōshao huì yǒudiǎnr chīkuī 。dàn nǐ bié wàng le ，zuìjìn de yīcì wǒ quándōu pāi xiàlai le 。
Don't bother. You should know how much I've done for you. Mr. Wei, just because the things we have to do to move up in the world are considered 'unspoken rules', it doesn't mean us women don't suffer because of it. But you shouldn't forget that thing that happened recently. I filmed the entire thing.
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