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错位

cuòwèi

“To be wrongly positioned” in Chinese is 错位 (cuòwèi).

Meaning

  • to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced
  • (medicine) to be in malposition
  • (fig.) erroneous; eccentric

Example

徐家汇商圈高中低档商品俱全,错位经营。

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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