English Explanatory Dictionary

zhuangyuan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
  2. Someone who places first the in the modern gaokao college entrance examination.

Pronunciation

/d͡ʒwɑːŋ.juˈæn/ /-ɑːn/ /-ɛn/

Word forms

zhuangyuan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元 /状元 (zhuàngyuán).

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