错位 (錯位)
cuò wèi
Pinyin

Definition

错位 (錯位)
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cuò wèi
  1. to misplace
  2. displacement (e.g. of broken bones)
  3. out of alignment
  4. faulty contact
  5. erroneous judgment
  6. inversion (medical, e.g. breach delivery)

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
位子
wèi zi
  1. 1 place
  2. 2 seat
位于
wèi yú
  1. 1 to be located at
  2. 2 to be situated at
  3. 3 to lie

Idioms (5)

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)
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!
尸位素餐
shī wèi sù cān
  1. 1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)
长生禄位
cháng shēng lù wèi
  1. 1 tablet and altar honoring a great benefactor (idiom)

Sample Sentences

好像现在大众对待变性这个问题也比以前宽容多了。说不定这里面还有河莉秀的功劳呢。她让大众了解 到性别错位的痛苦，还有做真实的自己的勇气。
hǎoxiàng xiànzài dàzhòng duìdài biànxìng zhè ge wèntí yě bǐ yǐqián kuānróng duō le 。shuōbudìng zhè lǐmiàn hái yǒu Hé lìxiù de gōngláo ne 。tā ràng dàzhòng liǎojiě dào xìngbié cuòwèi de tòngkǔ ，hái yǒu zuò zhēnshí de zìjǐ de yǒngqì 。
It seems like most people have gotten a lot more tolerant about the issue of sex changes. Maybe He Lixiu can take some credit for that. She made people realize the pain of being born the wrong sex, and has the courage to do her own stuff.
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