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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
seat / 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
everybody / all (guests, colleagues etc) / all of you
HSK 3
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
academic degree / place in school
HSK 5
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
a post; a job
HSK 6
(pron) everyone / Ladies and Gentlemen / Sirs
HSK 6
to orientate / to position / to categorize (as) / to characterize (as) / positioning / position / niche
HSK 6
parking space / parking spot
HSK 7-9
to get to the intended location / to be in place / to be in position / precise / well (done)
HSK 7-9
all around / omnidirectional / complete / holistic / comprehensive
HSK 7-9
acupuncture point / location of a grave
HSK 7-9
to swap places / (logic) conversion / (car maintenance) to rotate (tires)
HSK 7-9
rank / grade / quality / (aesthetic) taste
HSK 7-9
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc) / parliamentary or congressional seat
HSK 7-9
bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
HSK 7-9
parking spot / unloading point / garage place / stand for taxi
HSK 7-9
price level
HSK 7-9
to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition / (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
HSK 7-9
direction / points of the compass / bearing / position / azimuth
transposition / displacement / inversion / translocation / to displace / to transpose
index (rotating gauge) / cam gradation
digit / (Tw) digital
gold standard (monetary system)
phoneme
to succeed to the throne / accession
vendor's booth
administrative unit (e.g. province , prefecture 地區|地区 or county 縣|县)
(numeric, data) field (Tw)
to shift / shift / translocation / displacement / (medicine) dislocation
memorial tablet
posture
empty place / room (for sb)
first place
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
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
to be on the throne; to reign / to hold a particular leadership position
(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")
to succeed to the throne
geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区 and cell used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
counterpoint (in music etc) / to align / alignment
shipping space / cabin berth / cabin seat
to abdicate / to yield
water level
tonnage
dual degree (academic)
ladies and gentlemen; all of you present
to abdicate
memorial tablet
bunk; berth
to abdicate (as king)
to succeed to a title / to inherit
title of king / kingship
honorary degree / (U.K. etc) honours degree
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
to abdicate / to resign a position
decimal system
breech presentation (obstetrics)
to seize the throne
imperial throne
window seat
this (person)
spirit tablet / ancestral tablet
order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke , Marquis , Count , Viscount , Baron
berth (for a ship) / parking space (for a vehicle)
tide level
silver standard (monetary system)
phase (waves)
rank / class / (Japanese martial arts and board games) dan
ship's position
electric potential / voltage
(car racing) pole position / (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth)
offside (sports)
in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place
to settle a matter in one go
fame and position / official rank
(neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core")
(sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4]) / booth seating
(Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot
(of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom) / (athletics) On your mark!
to reserve a seat / to book a table / reservation
lexeme
redundant position
(of a position) to fall vacant / vacant post; a vacancy / (of regulation, service etc) unsatisfactory; dysfunctional
relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
official post
wheel alignment (automobile maintenance)
berth
workstation
(physics) equipotential
inversion
bachelor's degree
doctoral degree / PhD / same as Doctor of Philosophy 哲學博士學位|哲学博士学位
the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
master's degree
foot position (in dance)
order / rank / level

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