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chairperson / premier / chairman / CL: 個|个,
HSK 4
to attend / to participate / present
HSK 4
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
HSK 6
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  *席* | 席* | *席
woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc
HSK 7-9
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  *席* | 席* | *席
variant of / woven mat
HSK 7-9
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc) / parliamentary or congressional seat
HSK 7-9
to be absent
HSK 7-9
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil / Lula
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  *席* | 席* | *席
surname Xi
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
seat (at a banquet) / to attend a banquet
feast; banquet
summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL: 張|张, 領|领
(acknowledged) place / a role to play / niche
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
banquet; feast
banquet / mat for sitting
the content of a conversation / words / remarks
woven mat
spring mattress (loanword from "Simmons" bedding company name)
to attend a meeting as a nonvoting delegate
to engulf / to sweep / to carry away everything
seat in a parliament or legislative assembly
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
impromptu / improvised / to take one's seat (at a banquet etc)
pillow mat / pillow and mat / bed
to take one's seat
soft seat (= first class in PRC trains)
reed mat
reed mat
seat (at banquet) / by ext. guest of honor
mat woven from bamboo strips
(literary) to break off relations with a friend / to sever ties with sb
to offer a return banquet
to leave a banquet (without taking one's leave)
to absent oneself from a meeting / to decline to attend
hard seat (on trains)
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
end seat / place for less senior person
to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)
chief executive officer (CEO)
attendee
(baseball) plate appearance (PA)
ink slab and sitting mat / place where one studies and teaches
chief representative
all good things must come to an end (idiom)
to leave one's seat
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
presidium
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
Chief Justice
banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive
president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
witness stand or box
vice-chairperson
joint conference
driver's seat / pilot's seat
party chief
chair country / country holding revolving presidency
rostrum / platform / CL: 個|个
front passenger seat (in a car)
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
(Tw) the Seychelles
judgment seat
Scheveningen, resort in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands
to sleep on the ground (idiom)
Sidney or Sydney (name)
end of a banquet
priority seating for the aged (on buses etc)
erhua variant of 枕席
tax on a banquet or feast
associate director
to prepare a feast
chief information officer (CIO)
Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)
chief technology officer (CTO)
chief marketing officer (CMO)
chief financial officer (CFO)
chief operating officer (COO)


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