状元

Traditional (Taiwan): 狀元

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

zhuàngyuán ㄓㄨㄤˋ ㄩㄢˊ

    • top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)
    • top scorer in college entrance examination 高考 gāokǎo
    • the most brilliantly talented person in the field

      fig.

    • leading light

Character by character

Classifiers (measure words)

top scorer in the palace examination

top scorer in college entrance examination 高考 gāokǎo

the most brilliantly talented person in the field

leading light

Other words read zhuàngyuán

zhuangyuan with other tones

Near homophones of zhuangyuan

  • 专员 zhuānyuán assistant director
  • 转院 zhuǎnyuàn transfer to hospital

Words with 状元

Ending with 状元

  • 行行出状元 hánghángchūzhuàngyuán lit. in every trade, a master appears

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