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


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