借位
jiè wèi
Pinyin
Definition
借位
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- in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 position
- 2 location
- 3 place
- 4 seat
- 5 classifier for people (honorific)
- 6 classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
- 7 (physics) potential
- 1 everybody
- 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
- 3 all of you
- 1 place
- 2 seat
- 1 to be located at
- 2 to be situated at
- 3 to lie
Idioms (15)
人位相宜
- 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
以免借口
- 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
借刀杀人
- 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
- 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
- 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
借古讽今
- 1 to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
借尸还魂
- 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise