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HSK
senior high school / abbr. for 高級中學|高级中学
HSK 2
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试) / (Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)
HSK 6
veteran (journalist etc) / senior / highly experienced
HSK 7-9
senior / older generation / precursor
HSK 7-9
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to meet one's senior or superior
HSK 7-9
senior figure / elder / doyen
HSK 7-9
vocational higher education institution (abbr. for 高等職業技術學校|高等职业技术学校) / senior academic or professional title (abbr. for 高級職稱|高级职称) / high-ranking employee (abbr. for 高級職員|高级职员) / (Tw) vocational high school
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  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
entrance exam for senior middle school
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  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
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  *尊* | 尊* | *尊
senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel
senior official (in imperial China)
senior or older male schoolmate
senior or older female schoolmate
senior high school enrollment
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
executive / senior management / (contraction of 高級管理|高级管理)
senior ranking officer in Chinese army / senior colonel
senior / older person
the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister
senior technician; technical expert
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
senior
a senior monk
senior concubine / imperial consort
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  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
senior engineer (abbr. for 高級工程師|高级工程师) / (Tw) industrial vocational high school (abbr. for 高級工業職業學校|高级工业职业学校)
gold collar / high-level senior executive / highly-skilled worker
senior provincial government official in dynastic China
senior official / senior officer / commanding officer / CL: / sir (term of address for senior officer)
senior official
captain (army rank) / senior captain
to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
renowned senior figure; luminary; legend (in academia, sport etc)
to put forward a suggestion (to sb in a senior position) / to offer a word of advice
to offer a libation / person who performs the libation before a banquet / senior member of a profession / important government post in imperial China
senior palace maiden / unmarried woman
senior provincial official in imperial China
(literary) curtained carriage and ceremonial cap (symbols of a senior official); (fig.) dignitaries / (literary) to hold an official post
senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling / to pass the buck
aged and respected; senior
no matter how big or small / not distinguishing junior and senior
end seat / final place (for less senior person)
(old) a senior in one's household
Han Zheng (1954-), senior vice premier of the PRC (2018-)
end seat / place for less senior person
senior monk
senior fellow student
Fang Yi (1916-1997), senior party apparatchik
the wife of 杞梁, a senior official of the state of Qi who died on a military expedition / (fig.) a widow
upper house / senate / senior statesmen's assembly
to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly; (attributive) senior-friendly; elder-accessible
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
senior high school student
princelings, descendants of senior communist officials (PRC)
student of a senior high school
high official / senior executive
senior partner in sworn brotherhood
senior citizens' home; old folks' home
He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general
to draw water / (fig.) to promote sb to a more senior position
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
senior student
senior high school / abbr. to 高中
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  *冢* | 冢* | *冢
mound / burial mound / senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, oversaw compilation of History of the Ming Dynasty 明史 and the Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典
Zhang Yinhuan (1837-1900), late Qing politician and senior Chinese diplomat
senior center
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
Li Huaiyuan (-756), senior Tang dynasty official
no respect for seniors / lacking in manners
senior executive
high position / senior post
senior military officers / top brass


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