本位制

monetary standard

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

standard / one's own department or unit

position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制[zhi4]

to manufacture / to make

gold exchange standard (economics)

Silver Standard (monetary standard)