牌位
pái wèi
Pinyin
Definition
牌位
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- memorial tablet
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 brand name
- 2 trademark
- 1 place
- 2 seat
Idioms (6)
人位相宜
- 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
加官进位
- 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
又想当婊子又想立牌坊
- 1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation
- 3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too
各就各位
- 1 (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom)
- 2 (athletics) On your mark!
尸位素餐
- 1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)