银本位 (銀本位)
yín běn wèi
Pinyin

Definition

银本位 (銀本位)
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yín běn wèi
  1. Silver Standard (monetary standard)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

位
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
位置
wèi zhi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 place
  3. 3 seat
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
各位
gè wèi
  1. 1 everybody
  2. 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
  3. 3 all of you
单位
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
基本
jī běn
  1. 1 basic
  2. 2 fundamental
  3. 3 main
  4. 4 elementary

Idioms (17)

一本万利
yī běn wàn lì
  1. 1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
人位相宜
rén wèi xiāng yí
  1. 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
加官进位
jiā guān jìn wèi
  1. 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
勤俭为服务之本
qín jiǎn wéi fú wù zhī běn
  1. 1 hardwork and thriftiness are the foundations of service (idiom)

Sample Sentences

对，过去中国的金融是银本位的，但多数现代化的国家是金本位，也就是以黄金作为货币发行的基础，不过黄金比白银贵重，我比较看好金本位。
duì ，guòqù Zhōngguó de jīnróng shì yínběnwèi de ，dàn duōshù xiàndàihuà de guójiā shì jīnběnwèi ，yějiùshì yǐ huángjīn zuòwéi huòbì fāxíng de jīchǔ ，búguò huángjīn bǐ báiyín guìzhòng ，wǒ bǐjiào kànhǎo jīnběnwèi 。
Yes, previously financial trade in China was conducted under the silver standard, but the majority of modernized nations work under the gold standard, meaning they take gold as the basis for currency circulation. However gold is more valuable than silver, so I think the gold standard is better.
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