Definitions
- 1. unit (of measure)
- 2. unit (group of people as a whole)
- 3. work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)
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Usage notes
Collocations
Commonly used in 工作单位 (work unit) and 计量单位 (unit of measurement). It can be used with both institutional and measurement senses, but context makes the meaning clear.
Cultural notes
单位 traditionally implied lifelong employment and social welfare in pre-reform China; the term still carries connotations of stability and belonging.
Example Sentences
2 shown我们 单位 在市中心。
他是我们 单位 的干部。
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Words Containing 单位
subunit
subsyllabic unit
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metric units
unit trust (finance)
identity element (math.)
unit tangent vector (math.)
unit vector (math.)
(math.) root of unity
crime committed by an organization
international unit
International System of Units
basic unit
astronomical unit (AU)
work unit
affiliated unit
unit in charge of construction
thermal unit
production unit
peptide unit (on protein chain)
administrative unit (e.g. province 省[shěng], prefecture 地區|地区[dì qū] or county 縣|县[xiàn])
unit of weight
unit of length
unit of volume