襄理

xiānglǐ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 assistant manager (in a bank or large enterprise, especially Taiwan)
  2. 2 (literary) to assist in handling

Examples

Tā zài Táiběi de yínháng dānrèn xiānglǐ yǐjīng wǔ nián le.
He has been an assistant manager at a Taipei bank for five years.
Qǐng shāo děng, wǒ qù qǐng xiānglǐ lái chǔlǐ.
Please wait a moment, I'll go fetch the assistant manager to handle this.

Tips

register
Taiwan business term. In Taiwanese banks the typical hierarchy runs 襄理襄理经理 (rank-and-file → deputy assistant manager → assistant manager → deputy manager → manager). Mainland banks use a different ladder; 襄理 there sounds dated or literary.
memory
by itself means 'to assist' (as in 'jointly support a grand undertaking'). 襄理 = 'assisting [the] manager' — handy for parsing the rank as 'sub-manager who assists'.

Stroke Order

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