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mayor
HSK 2
the head of an institution whose name ends in ; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *長* | 長* | *長
long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *長* | 長* | *長
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
HSK 2
group leader
HSK 2
(college, university) president / headmaster / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 2
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
captain / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
to grow; to increase
HSK 3
head of a (government etc) department / section chief / section head / secretary / minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 3
head of an institute etc
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
to prolong / to extend / to delay
HSK 4
regimental command / head of a delegation / group buy organizer; group-buying coordinator
HSK 5
bureau chief / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
very long / endless
HSK 5
factory director
HSK 5
captain (of a boat) / skipper
HSK 6
bureau chief
HSK 6
department head / section chief
HSK 6
president of a club, committee etc
HSK 6
chairman of the board of directors
HSK 7-9
specialty / special knowledge or ability
HSK 7-9
to be good at; to be expert in
HSK 7-9
military division level commander / teacher
HSK 7-9
long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing)
HSK 7-9
proficiency in a particular field (idiom) / skill in a specialized area (idiom)
HSK 7-9
personal strength / one's special ability or strong points
HSK 7-9
overall length / span
HSK 7-9
slender / lanky / tall and thin
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
HSK 7-9
director general
the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
chairman (of a legislative assembly) / speaker
what one is good at
village chief / village head
senior or older male schoolmate
slender
senior official
wavelength
head of a committee
county's head commissioner
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
village chief / mayor (of village or township)
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
deputy chief
(aviation) pilot-in-command; captain
Taoist priest / Daoist priest
senior
perimeter / circumference
length (duration) of a film
section chief / CL: 個|个
head of a division of the music academy of the imperial court
president or director (of association etc)
governor (of a province or colony) / (US) state governor / (Australian) state premier
town headman / mayor (of small town or village) / bailiff
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
battalion commander
foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs
profound / significant / meaningful
to excel at (typically used after the area of expertise) (Example: 以研究見長|以研究见长 to be known for one's research)
vice-chairman
minister of foreign affairs
long and narrow
clan elder
person in charge of a (section or department) / head / chief / director / (in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長|风纪股长 discipline monitor
meaningful and heartfelt words (idiom); sincere and earnest wishes
chief of staff
long and continuous (coastline, sound etc) / extensive / prolonged
presiding judge
head of provincial PRC government department
slim
a good thing doesn't last forever (idiom)
to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop
start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
height (of person) / length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)
when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit
(military) brigade commander
presiding judge
to lengthen / to drag out
conductor / train manager
warden
with swagger / ostentatiously / to make the best use of one's strengths
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
ODA Nobunaga (1534-1582), Japanese shogun (warlord), played an important role in unifying Japan
(math.) distance-preserving / isometric
head of a bao in the baojia 保甲 system
Yanchang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom); fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past / a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then
to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
(military) Chief of Staff
ancient official title
high as the mountain and long as the river (idiom); fig. noble and far-reaching
fierce and ambitious character / formidable person
the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later / We'll cross that bridge when we get there
(of a plant) to experience excessive vegetative growth (at the expense of flowering or fruiting)
the monarch and his ministers / tribal chief

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