借位
jiè wèi
Pinyin

Definition

借位
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jiè wèi
  1. in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
wèi zhi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 place
  3. 3 seat
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
gè wèi
  1. 1 everybody
  2. 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
  3. 3 all of you
wèi zi
  1. 1 place
  2. 2 seat
wèi yú
  1. 1 to be located at
  2. 2 to be situated at
  3. 3 to lie

Idioms (15)

人位相宜
rén wèi xiāng yí
  1. 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
以免借口
yǐ miǎn jiè kǒu
  1. 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
借刀杀人
jiè dāo shā rén
  1. 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
  2. 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
  3. 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
借古讽今
jiè gǔ fěng jīn
  1. 1 to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
借尸还魂
jiè shī huán hún
  1. 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise