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 syn 投资 投資 tóu zī investment / to invest syn 材料 cái liào (raw) material / data / (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job syn 潜力 潛力 qián lì potential / latent capacity 潜在 潛在 qián zài hidden / potential / latent syn 潜质 潛質 qián zhì potential 到期 dào qī to fall due (loan etc) / to expire (visa etc) / to mature (investment bond etc) syn 潜能 潛能 qián néng potential / hidden capability 流失 liú shī (of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained syn 巨资 巨資 jù zī huge investment / vast sum 攻击力 攻擊力 gōng jī lì potential for attack / firepower 现货 現貨 xiàn huò merchandise or commodities available immediately after sale / merchandise in stock / available item / actuals (investment) / actual commodities 望子成龙 望子成龍 wàng zǐ chéng lóng lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment syn 势能 勢能 shì néng potential energy syn 股本 gǔ běn capital stock / investment syn 招商 zhāo shāng to seek investment or funding / investment promotion 外资 外資 wài zī foreign investment 独资 獨資 dú zī wholly-owned (often by foreign company) / exclusive investment 多头 多頭 duō tóu many-headed / many-layered (authority) / devolved (as opposed to centralized) / pluralistic / (as classifier) number of animals / long term (finance) / long (investment) syn 电位 電位 diàn wèi electric potential / voltage 招商引资 招商引資 zhāo shāng yǐn zī investment promotion 外企 wài qǐ foreign enterprise / company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong / abbr. for 外資企業|外资企业 投资基金 投資基金 investment funds 风险投资 風險投資 fēng xiǎn tóu zī venture capital investment 市场潜力 市場潛力 shì chǎng qián lì market potential / market possibility 投资银行 投資銀行 tóu zī yín háng investment banking 投资风险 投資風險 tóu zī fēng xiǎn investment risk 投资回报 投資回報 tóu zī huí bào investment return 投资组合 tóu zī zǔ hé investment portfolio 投资回报率 投資回報率 tóu zī huí bào lǜ return on investment (ROI) 潜力股 潛力股 qián lì gǔ stock that has potential to increase in value / (fig.) sb with good prospects 尽展 盡展 jìn zhǎn to display (one's potential, one's talents etc) 投资移民 投資移民 tóu zī yí mín investment immigration / immigrant investor 外国投资 外國投資 wài guó tóu zī foreign investment 引狼入室 yǐn láng rù shì to show the wolf into the house (idiom) / to introduce a potential source of trouble syn 潜在威胁 潛在威脅 qián zài wēi xié potential threat / potential menace 投 tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to / to seek refuge / to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water syn 势 勢 shì power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals syn 息 xī breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2] syn 孳息 zī xī interest (from an investment, esp. an endowment) 引狗入寨 yǐn gǒu rù zhài lit. to lead the dog into the village (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble 引鬼上门 引鬼上門 yǐn guǐ shàng mén lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble 鸾飘凤泊 鸞飄鳳泊 luán piāo fèng bó lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom) / fig. bold, graceful calligraphy / married couple separated from each other / talented person not given the opportunity to fulfill his potential syn 变潜在冲突为合作潜力 變潛在沖突為合作潛力 From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential 温室气体减排潜力 溫室氣體減排潛力 greenhouse gas reduction potential / GHG reduction potential 氧化还原电位 氧化還原電位 oxidation-reduction potential / redox potential 国际收支与国际投资头寸手册 國際收支與國際投資頭寸手冊 Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition / Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual 发展中国家粮食生产和投资协商小组 發展中國家糧食生產和投資協商小組 Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment in Developing Countries / Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment 粮食生产和投资协商小组 糧食生產和投資協商小組 Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment in Developing Countries / Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment 踩线 踩線 cǎi xiàn to scout for a tour operator / to reconnoiter a potential tour itinerary / (tennis) to commit a foot fault 核势 核勢 hé shì nuclear potential 潜在媒介 潛在媒介 qián zài méi jiè potential vector 事件相关电位 事件相關電位 shì jiàn xiāng guān diàn wèi (neuroscience) event-related potential 势阱 勢阱 shì jǐng potential well (physics) 势降 勢降 shì jiàng potential drop (elec.) 有潜力 有潛力 yǒu qián lì promising / showing potential 军势 軍勢 jūn shì army strength / military prowess or potential 内推 內推 nèi tuī (math.) interpolation / (human resources) internal referral / employee referral (recommendation of a potential new employee by an existing employee or client) 敏化潜力 mǐn huà qián lì sensitizing potential 军事潜力 jūn shì qián lì military potential 可能供养比率 potential support ratio 至瘾潜势 zhì yǐn qián shì abuse potential 石灰位 shí huī wèi lime potential 臭氧消耗潜能值 臭氧消耗潛能值 ozone-depleting potential 社会经济潜力 socio-economic potential 技术潜力 technological potential 经济潜力 jīng jì qián lì economic potential 全球升温潜能值 quán qiú shēng wēn qián néng zhí global warming potential 货物和服务供应商一般业务指南 貨物和服務供應商一般業務指南 General Business Guide for Potential Suppliers of Goods and Services / General Business Guide 一般业务指南 一般業務指南 yī pán yè wù zhǐ nán General Business Guide for Potential Suppliers of Goods and Services / General Business Guide 土壤水总潜力 土壤水總潛力 tǔ rǎng shuǐ zǒng qián lì total soil water potential α 潜能 α 潛能 alpha; qián néng potential alpha energy 南海潜在冲突管理讲习班 南海潛在沖突管理講習班 Workshops on Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea 灭绝种族罪的可能受害者 滅絕種族罪的可能受害者 potential victim of genocide 光化学臭氧生成潜势 光化學臭氧生成潛勢 photochemical ozone creation potential 科技潜力 科技潛力 kē jì qián lì scientific and technological potential 重力势 重力勢 gravity potential / gravity 势场法 勢場法 shì chǎng fǎ potential field methods 发展中国家工业合作社经济社会潜力会议 發展中國家工業合作社經濟社會潛力會議 Conference on the Economic and Social Potential of Industrial Cooperatives in Developing Countries 控制电位库仑分析法 控制電位庫侖分析法 controlled potential coulometry 潜在渔获量 潛在漁獲量 potential catch 上升空间 上升空間 shàng shēng kōng jiān upside / potential to rise 水浅养不住大鱼 水淺養不住大魚 shuǐ qiǎn yǎng bù zhù dà yú lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom) / fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization 男友力 nán yǒu lì (coll.) attractiveness (as a potential boyfriend) / degree to which one is "boyfriend material" 引狼入室 yǐn láng - rù shì lit. to show the wolf into the house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble syn 跑业务 跑業務 pǎo yè wù (of a salesperson) to visit potential customers with the aim of selling products or services 位能 wèi néng (physics) potential energy syn 外来投资 外來投資 wài lái tóu zī foreign investment 中国国际信托投资公司 中國國際信托投資公司 zhōng guó guó jì xìn tuō tóu zī gōng sī CITIC / Chinese International Trust and Investment Company 和记黄埔 和記黃埔 hé jì huáng pǔ Hutchison Whampoa (former investment holding company based in Hong Kong, founded in 1863, defunct in 2015) 外商直接投资 外商直接投資 wài shāng zhí jiē tóu zī overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI) 打水漂 dǎ shuǐ piāo to skip stones (on water) / (coll.) to squander one's money on a bad investment 投资报酬率 投資報酬率 tóu zī bào chóu lǜ return on investment / rate of return 未来业绩 未來業績 wèi lái yè jì future yield (of investment) 短期投资 短期投資 duǎn qī tóu zī short term investment 等额比基金 等額比基金 děng é bǐ jī jīn equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations 筹算 籌算 chóu suàn to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board) / to count beads / (fig.) to budget / to plan (an investment) syn 门户开放 門戶開放 mén hù kāi fàng open door policy / Egyptian President Sadat's infitah policy towards investment and relations with Israel 雷曼兄弟 léi màn xiōng dì Lehman Brothers, investment bank 