Director in Chinese
director · HSK 3
经理
- 经 to pass through
- 理 reason
Counted with 个: 一个经理
我们经理今天不在办公室。 Our manager isn't in the office today.
Other ways to say director
More words with 经 or 理
How do you say director in Chinese?
Director in Chinese is 经理 (jīng lǐ). You can also say 院长 (yuàn zhǎng), 主任 (zhǔ rèn), 导演 (dǎo yǎn).
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?
The CC-CEDICT 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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.