尸位

Chinese

		corpse	position; location; (measure word for persons) position; location; (measure word for persons); place; seat
simp. and trad. (尸位)		尸	位
Literally: “to hold one's position like a corpse”.

From 《五子之歌》 (Song of Five People) in the Book of Documents:

太康尸位，以逸豫滅厥德，黎民咸貳。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

太康尸位，以逸豫灭厥德，黎民咸贰。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

Tàikāng shīwèi, yǐ yìyù miè juédé, límín xián èr. [Pinyin]

Tai Kang who held his position without doing anything lived happily and comfortably instead of being moral. All commoners were disloyal.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥̥[ə]j [ɢ]ʷrəp-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*hli ɢʷrɯbs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	尸	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī	wèi
Middle Chinese	‹ syij ›	‹ hwij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥̥[ə]j/	/[ɢ]ʷrəp-s/ (< ɢʷəʔ-rəp-s ?)
English	corpse	standing, position
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

尸位