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HSK
everybody / all (guests, colleagues etc) / all of you
HSK 3
seat / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
position / place / seat / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to be located at / to be situated at / to lie
HSK 4
to orientate / to position / to categorize (as) / to characterize (as) / positioning / position / niche
HSK 6
all around / omnidirectional / complete / holistic / comprehensive
HSK 7-9
academic degree / place in school
HSK 5
place / seat
HSK 7-9
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
to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition / (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
HSK 7-9
to settle a matter in one go
position; post; job
HSK 5
parking space; parking spot
HSK 7-9
price level
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")
(pron) everyone / Ladies and Gentlemen / Sirs
HSK 6
astronomical unit (AU)
the title of Emperor
(Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot
dual degree (academic)
digital network
part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)
HSK 5
GPS (Global Positioning System)
to be located at
original position / (in) the same place / normal position / the place where one currently is / in situ
(football) set piece (a restart of play following a stoppage, including free kicks, corner kicks, penalty kicks, goal kicks and throw-ins)
rank / grade / quality / (aesthetic) taste
HSK 7-9
bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
HSK 7-9
doctoral degree; PhD
Holy Trinity / trinity
to swap places / (logic) conversion / (car maintenance) to rotate (tires)
HSK 7-9
to get to the intended location / to be in place / to be in position / precise / well (done)
HSK 7-9
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
median
master's degree
(geometry) displacement (a vector quantity)
decimal system
to put oneself in sb else’s shoes
quantile (statistics)
honorary degree / (U.K. etc) honours degree
8-bit (computing)
(sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4]) / booth seating
acupuncture point / location of a grave
HSK 7-9
a post; a job
HSK 6
to succeed to the throne
(Tw) to digitize
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc) / parliamentary or congressional seat
HSK 7-9
berth (for a ship) / parking space (for a vehicle)
(of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom) / (athletics) On your mark!
(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")
decimal system
isotope
standard salary for a specific job (contrasted with performance pay 績效工資|绩效工资 or commission 提成 etc)
International System of Units
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
second place
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke , Marquis , Count , Viscount , Baron
64-bit (computing)
the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
local currency / our own currency / abbr. to 本幣|本币
GPS (Global Positioning System)
to succeed to the throne / accession
production unit
plane (of existence)
unit trust (finance)
to reserve a seat / to book a table / reservation
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)
system of writing numbers to a base, such as decimal or binary (math)
direction / points of the compass / bearing / position / azimuth
(Tw) (computing) bit
international unit
tide level
superordinate concept
gigabit
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
work unit
unit of weight
relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
positioning (marketing)
calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status
third place
unit of volume
place (in numbered sequence) / degree on employment scale
par
bachelor's degree
unit in charge of construction / builder
public institution / (Tw) business enterprise; company; firm
(computing) placeholder
basic unit / fundamental building block
sacking the worst-performing employee / elimination of the worst-performing contestant
to put sth back where it belongs / to return to the original position / to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
silver standard (monetary system)
parking spot / unloading point / garage place / stand for taxi
HSK 7-9
ladies and gentlemen; all of you present
kilobit
quartile (statistics)

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