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


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