越位
yuè wèi
Pinyin
Definition
越位
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- offside (sports)
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 generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods
- 2 abbr. for Vietnam 越南
- 1 more and more
Idioms (11)
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)
各就各位
- 1 (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom)
- 2 (athletics) On your mark!
吴越同舟
- 1 Wu and Yue in the same boat (idiom); fig. cooperation between natural rivals
- 2 to collaborate towards a common end
- 3 in the same boat together
尸位素餐
- 1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)