| | premier / prime minister / CL: 個|个, 位, 名 | HSK 4 |
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| | prime minister (of Japan or UK etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | prime minister (in feudal China) | |
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| | Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011) | |
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| | the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister | |
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| | prime minister (in ancient China) | |
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| | Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985 | |
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| | Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010 | |
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| | Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008 | |
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| | Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | |
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| | Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96 | |
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| | Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009 | |
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| | Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | |
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| | Asō (name) / ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister 2008-2009 | |
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| | (name) Anwar / Anwar Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022- | |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011 | |
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| | to assist a ruler in governing a country / prime minister | |
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| | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964 | |
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| | Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister 2006-2015 | |
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| | Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill | |
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| | surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008 | |
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| | Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010 | |
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| | sagacious prime minister (in feudal China) | |
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| | Wang Meng (325-375), prime minister to Fu Jian 苻堅|苻坚 of Former Qin 前秦 | |
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| | Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC | |
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| | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003-2014, president 2014- | |
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| | Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019 | |
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| | Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown | |
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| | Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990 | |
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| | Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004 | |
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| | Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史 / also written Tuoketuo 托克托 | |
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| | Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japan's first prime minister (served four terms), key figure in Japan's colonial expansion into Korea | |
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| | Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976 | |
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| | Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩 | |
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| | Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994 | |
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| | António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002) | |
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| | premier / prime minister | |
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| | Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 1981-2003 and 2018-2020 | |
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| | McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963 | |
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| | Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | |
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| | the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮) | |
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| | Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938 | |
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| | José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014 | |
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| | Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013 | |
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| | ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008 | |
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| | former prime minister | |
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| | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880 | |
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| | FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008 | |
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| | KAN Naoto (1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2010-2011 | |
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| | former prime minister | |
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| | HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998 | |
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| | An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 in 1909 | |
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| | Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010 | |
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| | deputy prime minister | |
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| | Tomiichi Murayama (1924-), former prime minister of Japan | |
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| | Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34 | |
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| | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam 2006-2016 | |
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| | famous prime minister (in ancient China) / names and appearances (Buddhism) | |
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| | Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 | |
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| | Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020 | |
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| | MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes | |
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| | Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind | |
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| | Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012 | |
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| | Maliki or Al-Maliki (name) / Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014 | |
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| | Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | |
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| | formal title of the Japanese prime minister | |
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| | vice-premier / vice prime minister / deputy prime minister | |
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| | Gujral (name) / Inder Kumar Gujral (1919-2012), Indian Janata politician, prime minister 1997-1998 | |
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| | Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012 | |
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| | Ms Sheikh Hasina (1947-), Bangladesh politician, prime minister 1996-2001 and from 2009 | |
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| | Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), former Japanese prime minister | |
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| | KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | |
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| | Obuchi Keizo (1937-2000), Japanese politician, prime minister 1998-2000 | |
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| | Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands 2002-2010 | |
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| | Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946-), former prime minister of Nepal | |
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| | Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac | |
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| | Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee | |
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| | KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991 | |
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| | Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015 | |
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| | Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993), Japanese politician, prime minister 1972-1974 | |
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| | Mohamed Naguib (1901-1984), first president of the Republic of Egypt / Najib Razak (1953-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2009-2018 | |
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| | Julia Gillard (1961-), Australian politician, prime minister 2010-2013 | |
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| | Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012 | |
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| | Zapatero (name) / José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011 | |
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| | Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96 | |
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| | Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941 | |
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| | Han Seung-soo (1936-), South Korean diplomat and politician, prime minister 2008-2009 | |
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