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capital (city) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
first (of all) / in the first place
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *首* | 首* | *首
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 4
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
Chief Justice
(linguistics) onset
chief executive officer (CEO)
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
HSK 6
first / first time / for the first time
HSK 6
local capital / regional capital
chief technology officer (CTO)
head (of state) / summit (meeting) / leader
HSK 6
to originate; to pioneer; to invent
HSK 7-9
chief information officer (CIO)
first case / first instance
to count as number one (idiom); second to none / outstanding
principal county magistrate in imperial China
acronym
the most important / of chief importance
HSK 7-9
leadership conference / summit meeting
jewelry / head ornament
HSK 7-9
Seoul Special Metropolitan City, official name of the capital of South Korea
capital city of an autonomous region
HSK 7-9
Beijing Capital International Airport
premiere of a movie
senior official
to regard as the foremost / to name as a prime example / to implement for the first time
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
to win the first battle
to bear the brunt
to give a nod of approval
Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
initial letters
to join head to tail / bumper-to-bumper (of traffic jam)
first batch
HSK 7-9
capital territory / Australian Capital Territory (ACT) around Canberra 堪培拉
(idiom) the finest place in the nation (often used in reference to the capital city)
onset and rime
pioneer; trailblazer
first season / first quarter
initial public offering (IPO)
Capital University of Economics and Business (Beijing)
richest individual / top millionaire
first session (of a conference etc)
first day cover (philately)
first fixation duration
to initiate
Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
first place
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城)
Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)
first time
severed head
summit talks / discussion between heads of state
head and tail
chief financial officer (CFO)
first round (of a competition etc)
down payment
first person to be appointed to a post
to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room)
(idiom) to hesitate / to remain undecided
chief representative
down payment
chief operating officer (COO)
first issue / first public showing
debut
first organized / to run sth for the first time
to confess one's crime / first model, version, kind etc (of gadgets, software, cars etc)
head; boss; chief
the Capital Theater (in Beijing)
first floor / ground floor
first choice / premium / to come first in the imperial examinations
Capital University of Business and Economics, Beijing
leadership meeting
chief marketing officer (CMO)
to emphasize / to give the most weight to / to rank first
first (hotel of its type, store of its type etc)


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