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


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