高位
gāo wèi
Pinyin
Definition
高位
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- high position
- eminent status
- top job
- raised position
- upper (limbs)
- a high (i.e. local maximum)
- high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc
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 unit (of measure)
- 2 unit (group of people as a whole)
- 3 work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)
- 4 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 tallest
- 2 highest
- 3 supreme (court etc)
Idioms (20)
一见高低
- 1 lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom)
- 2 fig. to cross swords with
- 3 to lock horns
不识高低
- 1 can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what
事不关己,高高挂起
- 1 to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
人位相宜
- 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
人往高处走,水往低处流
- 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
- 2 one should constantly strive to make progress