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premier / prime minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 4
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
prime minister (in feudal China)
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister
prime minister (in ancient China)
Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985
Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Asō (name) / ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister 2008-2009
(name) Anwar / Anwar Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022-
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011
to assist a ruler in governing a country / prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister 2006-2015
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill
surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008
Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
sagacious prime minister (in feudal China)
Wang Meng (325-375), prime minister to Fu Jian 苻堅|苻坚 of Former Qin 前秦
Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003-2014, president 2014-
Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019
Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
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
Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japan's first prime minister (served four terms), key figure in Japan's colonial expansion into Korea
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
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
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
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
premier / prime minister
Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 1981-2003 and 2018-2020
McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮)
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
José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014
Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013
ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008
former prime minister
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
KAN Naoto (1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2010-2011
former prime minister
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
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
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
deputy prime minister
Tomiichi Murayama (1924-), former prime minister of Japan
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam 2006-2016
famous prime minister (in ancient China) / names and appearances (Buddhism)
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020
MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
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
Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012
Maliki or Al-Maliki (name) / Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014
Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006
formal title of the Japanese prime minister
vice-premier / vice prime minister / deputy prime minister
Gujral (name) / Inder Kumar Gujral (1919-2012), Indian Janata politician, prime minister 1997-1998
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
Ms Sheikh Hasina (1947-), Bangladesh politician, prime minister 1996-2001 and from 2009
Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), former Japanese prime minister
KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Obuchi Keizo (1937-2000), Japanese politician, prime minister 1998-2000
Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands 2002-2010
Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946-), former prime minister of Nepal
Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015
Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993), Japanese politician, prime minister 1972-1974
Mohamed Naguib (1901-1984), first president of the Republic of Egypt / Najib Razak (1953-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2009-2018
Julia Gillard (1961-), Australian politician, prime minister 2010-2013
Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012
Zapatero (name) / José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96
Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941
Han Seung-soo (1936-), South Korean diplomat and politician, prime minister 2008-2009


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