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unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *位* | 位* | *位
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential
HSK 2
seat / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
everybody / all (guests, colleagues etc) / all of you
HSK 3
position / place / seat / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to be located at / to be situated at / to lie
HSK 4
position; post; job
HSK 5
part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)
HSK 5
academic degree / place in school
HSK 5
to orientate / to position / to categorize (as) / to characterize (as) / positioning / position / niche
HSK 6
a post; a job
HSK 6
(pron) everyone / Ladies and Gentlemen / Sirs
HSK 6
rank / grade / quality / (aesthetic) taste
HSK 7-9
to get to the intended location / to be in place / to be in position / precise / well (done)
HSK 7-9
to swap places / (logic) conversion / (car maintenance) to rotate (tires)
HSK 7-9
price level
HSK 7-9
bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
HSK 7-9
to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition / (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
HSK 7-9
acupuncture point / location of a grave
HSK 7-9
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc) / parliamentary or congressional seat
HSK 7-9
place / seat
HSK 7-9
parking space / parking spot
HSK 7-9
all around / omnidirectional / complete / holistic / comprehensive
HSK 7-9
parking spot / unloading point / garage place / stand for taxi
HSK 7-9
(neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core")
(numeric, data) field (Tw)
system of writing numbers to a base, such as decimal or binary (math)
direction / points of the compass / bearing / position / azimuth
ladies and gentlemen; all of you present
geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区 and cell used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
phase (waves)
gold standard (monetary system)
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
water level
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
isotope
digit / (Tw) digital
silver standard (monetary system)
post allowance; job-specific subsidy
berth (for a ship) / parking space (for a vehicle)
(logistics) storage location / place to store goods / (finance) position
electric potential / voltage
original position / (in) the same place / normal position / the place where one currently is / in situ
rank / class / (Japanese martial arts and board games) dan
nuclear isobar
(geometry) displacement (a vector quantity)
to put sth back where it belongs / to return to the original position / to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
(of a position) to fall vacant / vacant post; a vacancy / (of regulation, service etc) unsatisfactory; dysfunctional
to abdicate
to succeed to the throne
to restore sb or sth to its original position / to regain the throne / to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc) / reset
posture
par
to abdicate / to yield
order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke , Marquis , Count , Viscount , Baron
workstation
to succeed to the throne / accession
title of king / kingship
memorial tablet
to shift / shift / translocation / displacement / (medicine) dislocation
(economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位 "gold standard") / one's own department or unit / central reference point; fundamental frame of reference (used after a noun N, indicates an N-centered outlook, as in 學校本位|学校本位 "school-centered approach")
vendor's booth
to be on the throne; to reign / to hold a particular leadership position
offside (sports)
imperial throne
relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
to seize the throne
Holy Trinity / trinity
first place
the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
bunk; berth
power and position (politics)
median
shipping space / cabin berth / cabin seat
tonnage
tide level
(in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting; mode
the title of Emperor
to settle a matter in one go
phoneme
to reserve a seat / to leave a position vacant
official post
to abdicate (as king)
memorial tablet
overall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company)
in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place
fame and position / official rank
to hold a sinecure (idiom)
to abdicate / to resign a position
ship's position
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
this (person)
silver standard (monetary system)
rank / place / position
counterpoint (in music etc) / to align / alignment
(semantics) hyponym
berth
transposition / displacement / inversion / translocation / to displace / to transpose
index (rotating gauge) / cam gradation

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