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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
三元
(old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元 jièyuán, metro…
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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(old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元 jièyuán, metropolitan 会元 and palace 状元
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 三元 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 三元 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 三元.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 三元.
Directly before
- 我用三元1
- 把三元1
Directly after
- 三元一打1
- 三元色1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 三元
What does 三元 mean in Chinese?
三元 (sānyuán) means (old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元 jièyuán, metro….
How do you pronounce 三元?
三元 is pronounced sānyuán.
Is 三元 an HSK word?
三元 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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