本 位

běn wèidictionary entry

(economics) standard / benchmark (as in 金本位[jīn běn wèi] "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[xué xiào běn wèi] "school-centered approach")

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Original source entry:

本位 本位 [ben3 wei4] /(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")/

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本
běn
(bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
位
wèi
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

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