Chief in Chinese
chief · HSK 5
主任
- 主 master
- 任 to appoint
主任让我把报告交给他。 The director asked me to hand the report to him.
Other ways to say chief
More words with 主 or 任
How do you say chief in Chinese?
Chief in Chinese is 主任 (zhǔ rèn). You can also say 长 (zhǎng), 首要 (shǒu yào).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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