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


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