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chairperson / premier / chairman / CL: 個|个,
HSK 4
to attend / to participate / present
HSK 4
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *席* | 席* | *席
woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *席* | 席* | *席
variant of / woven mat
HSK 7-9
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc) / parliamentary or congressional seat
HSK 7-9
to be absent
HSK 7-9
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *席* | 席* | *席
surname Xi
(literary) to break off relations with a friend / to sever ties with sb
feast; banquet
chief technology officer (CTO)
seat (at a banquet) / to attend a banquet
Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive
summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL: 張|张, 領|领
(acknowledged) place / a role to play / niche
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
banquet; feast
banquet / mat for sitting
the content of a conversation / words / remarks
woven mat
spring mattress (loanword from "Simmons" bedding company name)
to attend a meeting as a nonvoting delegate
to engulf / to sweep / to carry away everything
seat in a parliament or legislative assembly
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
chief information officer (CIO)
impromptu / improvised / to take one's seat (at a banquet etc)
pillow mat / pillow and mat / bed
to take one's seat
reed mat
reed mat
driver's seat / pilot's seat
to leave a banquet (without taking one's leave)
to absent oneself from a meeting / to decline to attend
hard seat (on trains)
chief marketing officer (CMO)
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)
chief executive officer (CEO)
attendee
(baseball) plate appearance (PA)
vice-chairperson
ink slab and sitting mat / place where one studies and teaches
priority seating for the aged (on buses etc)
chief operating officer (COO)
chief representative
all good things must come to an end (idiom)
to leave one's seat
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
presidium
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
Chief Justice
president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
witness stand or box
joint conference
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil / Lula
to prepare a feast
party chief
chair country / country holding revolving presidency
rostrum / platform / CL: 個|个
front passenger seat (in a car)
(Tw) the Seychelles
judgment seat
Scheveningen, resort in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands
to sleep on the ground (idiom)
Sidney or Sydney (name)
seat (at banquet) / by ext. guest of honor
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
end of a banquet
end seat / place for less senior person
erhua variant of 枕席
tax on a banquet or feast
mat woven from bamboo strips
associate director
soft seat (= first class in PRC trains)
to offer a return banquet
Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)
chief financial officer (CFO)


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