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高层

gāocéng

high-level, upper class; high-ranking

A person looks out of a window at the top of a tall tower
Memory picture

Characters in this word

高 gāo

Strokes
10
Radical
高 — tall, lofty
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

层 céng

Strokes
7
Radical
尸 — body, corpse
Made of
尸 body, corpse 云 cloud
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 高层管理者必须对企业的长期发展方向作出判断。 Gāocéng guǎnlǐzhě bìxū duì qǐyè de chángqī fāzhǎn fāngxiàng zuòchū pànduàn. Senior managers must make judgements about the company's long-term direction of development.
  • 这座城市新建了很多高层住宅楼。 Zhè zuò chéngshì xīnjiàn le hěn duō gāocéng zhùzháilóu. This city has built many new high-rise residential buildings.
  • 公司高层昨天开会讨论了明年的计划。 Gōngsī gāocéng zuótiān kāihuì tǎolùn le míngnián de jìhuà. The company's top management held a meeting yesterday to discuss next year's plans.

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