President in Chinese
president (of a college, court, academy) · HSK 4
院长
- 院 courtyard
- 长 long
Counted with 位: 一位院长
新院长今天第一天上班。 Today is the new director's first day at work.
Other ways to say president
More words with 院 or 长
How do you say president in Chinese?
President in Chinese is 院长 (yuàn zhǎng). You can also say 总统 (zǒng tǒng), 总裁 (zǒng cái), 主席 (zhǔ xí).
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.