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- position
- location
- place
- seat
- classifier for people (honorific)
- classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
- (physics) potential
- order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公[gong1], Marquis 侯[hou2], Count 伯[bo2], Viscount 子[zi3], Baron 男[nan2]
- seat of honor
- person in a high-ranking position
- to be promoted to a more senior role
- (genetics) epistatic
- in arithmetic of subtraction, to borrow 10 and carry from the next place
- (of a position) to fall vacant
- vacant post; a vacancy
- (of regulation, service etc) unsatisfactory; dysfunctional
Trad. 頭位
- (car racing) pole position
- (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth)
Trad. 倉位
- (logistics) storage location
- place to store goods
- (finance) position
C位
- (neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core")
Trad. 單位
- 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[ge4]
- relative position of exhibition booth
- allocated floor space for display stall
- allotted exhibit area
- original position
- (in) the same place
- normal position
- the place where one currently is
- in situ
Trad. 錯位
- to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced
- (medicine) to be in malposition
- (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
Trad. 復位
- to restore sb or sth to its original position
- to regain the throne
- to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc)
- reset
Trad. 換位
- to swap places
- (logic) conversion
- (car maintenance) to rotate (tires)
- to orientate
- to position
- to categorize (as)
- to characterize (as)
- positioning
- position
- niche
- (sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4])
- booth seating
- part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)
- (economics) standard; benchmark (as in 金本位[jin1 ben3 wei4] "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[xue2 xiao4 ben3 wei4] "school-centered approach")
Trad. 擋位
- (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
- 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
Trad. 劃位
- (Tw) to divide up an area
- to assign a spot; to allocate a seat
- one's assigned spot
Trad. 歸位
- to put sth back where it belongs
- to return to the original position
- to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
- to get to the intended location
- to be in place
- to be in position
- precise
- well (done)
Trad. 轉位
- transposition
- displacement
- inversion
- translocation
- to displace
- to transpose
Trad. 區位
- geographical location
- (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
- many-sided
- versatile
- various aspects
- all-round
- multidirectional
Trad. 百萬位
- the millions place (or column) in the decimal system
Trad. 十萬位
- the hundred thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
- (football) set piece (a restart of play following a stoppage, including free kicks, corner kicks, penalty kicks, goal kicks and throw-ins)
Trad. 總噸位
- overall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company)
Trad. 進位法
- system of writing numbers to a base, such as decimal or binary (math)
Trad. 事業單位
- public institution
- (Tw) business enterprise; company; firm
Trad. 基本單位
- basic unit
- fundamental building block
- (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom)
- (athletics) On your mark!
Trad. 單位犯罪
- crime committed by an organization
Trad. 銀本位制
- silver standard (monetary system)
- one's moral standards are not in keeping with one's social status
Trad. 換位思考
- to put oneself in sb else’s shoes
Trad. 四輪定位
- wheel alignment (automobile maintenance)
- sacking the worst-performing employee
- elimination of the worst-performing contestant
Trad. 行政單位
- administrative unit (e.g. province 省[sheng3], prefecture 地區|地区[di4 qu1] or county 縣|县[xian4])
Trad. 施工單位
- unit in charge of construction
- builder
- allele (one of two paired gene in diploid organism)
Trad. 聲波定位
- sonic location system (esp. underwater sonar); acoustic positioning
Trad. 虛位以待
- to reserve a seat
- to leave a position vacant
Trad. 本位主義
- selfish departmentalism
- departmental selfishness
Trad. 本位貨幣
- local currency
- our own currency
- abbr. to 本幣|本币
Trad. 榮譽學位
- honorary degree
- (U.K. etc) honours degree
Trad. 位極人臣
- to have reached the highest official positions