高位
gāo wèi
Pinyin

Definition

高位
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gāo wèi
  1. high position
  2. eminent status
  3. top job
  4. raised position
  5. upper (limbs)
  6. a high (i.e. local maximum)
  7. high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
wèi zhi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 place
  3. 3 seat
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
gè wèi
  1. 1 everybody
  2. 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
  3. 3 all of you
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
zuì gāo
  1. 1 tallest
  2. 2 highest
  3. 3 supreme (court etc)

Idioms (20)

一见高低
yī jiàn gāo dī
  1. 1 lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to cross swords with
  3. 3 to lock horns
不识高低
bù shí gāo dī
  1. 1 can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what
事不关己,高高挂起
shì bù guān jǐ , gāo gāo guà qǐ
  1. 1 to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
人位相宜
rén wèi xiāng yí
  1. 1 to be the right person for the job (idiom)
人往高处走,水往低处流
rén wǎng gāo chù zǒu , shuǐ wǎng dī chù liú
  1. 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
  2. 2 one should constantly strive to make progress