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the head of an institution whose name ends in ; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
(college, university) president / headmaster / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 2
president (of a country) / CL: 個|个, , , 屆|届
HSK 4
president of a club, committee etc
HSK 6
to occupy a post currently / current (president etc); incumbent / (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
HSK 7-9
George Washington (1732-1799), first US president
Barack Obama (1961-), US Democrat politician, president 2009-2017
Lincoln (name) / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865 / Lincoln, US car make
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of / (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)
Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989)
Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
Gore (name) / Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
Yeltsin (name) / Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999
Kennedy (name) / J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US Democrat politician, president 1961-1963
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012
Monroe (name) / James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth US president
Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon
First Lady (wife of US president)
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
president or director (of association etc)
bank president
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq 1979-2003
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994
Bhutto (name) / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq / Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
Suleiman (name) / General Michel Suleiman (1948-), Lebanese military man and politician, president of Lebanon 2008-2014
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961
Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020), former Egyptian President and military commander
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959-1969
Fujimori (Japanese surname) / Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (1938-), president of Peru 1990-2000
Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996
Bismarck (name) / Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890
the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948-2022), now a public park
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, president of Yugoslavia 1945-1980
Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001
Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008
Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Xi Jinping (1953-), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CCP from 2012, president of the PRC from 2013
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
(name) Rabiye or Rebiya / Rebiya Kadeer (1946-), Uyghur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uyghur Congress
Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia 2004-2013
Logue or Rogge (name) / Jacques Rogge, president of International Olympic Committee (IOC)
surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008
Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
class president (in a school) / class captain / cohort leader
Donald Trump (1946-), American business magnate, US president 2017-2021 / see also 背後捅刀|背后捅刀 and 落井下石
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Biden (name) / Joe Biden (1942-), US president (2021-), vice-president 2009-2017
Jiang Zemin (1926-2022), politician, president of PRC 1993-2003
Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899
(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003-2014, president 2014-
Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019
the original name of 孫中山|孙中山, Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党
vice-chairman (of an organization) / vice president (of a company) / deputy governor (of a bank)
Mike Pence (1959-), US Republican politician, US vice president from 2017
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920-2016), president of Italy 1999-2006
Tsai Ing-wen (1956-), Taiwanese DPP politician, president of the Republic of China 2016-2024
Chea Sim, president of Cambodian National Assembly
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
Hoover (name) / Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)
William Lai Ching-te (1959-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice president of the Republic of China from 2020
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
vice-president
Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
(name) Carter / Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), US president 1977-1981
Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙, president of Korea 2013-2017
Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University 1917-27
Zeng Qinghong (1939-), vice-president of PRC 2003-2008
former president
Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Chun Doo Hwan (1931-), South Korean politician, president 1980-1988
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations
Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921
nickname for US President Trump 川普, implying that he benefitted China (hence 建國|建国) by doing a poor job of leading the US
José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014
Suharto (1921-2008), former Indonesian general, president of the Republic of Indonesia 1967-1998
open door policy / Egyptian President Sadat's infitah policy towards investment and relations with Israel
Zuma (name) / Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president 2009-2018
Tadich (name) / Boris Tadić (1958-), Serbian politician, president 2004-2012
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, president of Iran 2005-2013 / abbr. for 艾哈邁迪內賈德|艾哈迈迪内贾德

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