尸位素餐
shī wèi sù cān
Pinyin

Definition

尸位素餐
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shī wèi sù cān
  1. to hold a sinecure (idiom)

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
dān wèi
  1. 1 unit (of measure)
  2. 2 unit (group of people as a whole)
  3. 3 work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
zǎo cān
  1. 1 breakfast
  2. 2 classifier: 份 fèn
  3. 3 classifier: 顿 dùn
  4. 4 classifier: 次 cì

Idioms (20)

人位相宜
rén wèi xiāng yí
  1. 1 to be the right person for the job (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
加官进位
jiā guān jìn wèi
  1. 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
勤俭朴素
qín jiǎn pǔ sù
  1. 1 hardworking, thrifty, plain, and simple (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!