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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

称职

chènzhí

well qualified

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

well qualified

02

competent

03

to be equal to the task

04

able to do sth very well

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 称职 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 称职 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们需要称职的领导人。wǒ men xū yào chèn zhí de lǐng dǎo rén。

We need competent leaders.

他们俩都是很称职的法官。tā men liǎ dōu shì hěn chèn zhí de fǎ guān。

They are both very competent judges.

我不是称职的母亲。wǒ bú shì chèn zhí de mǔ qīn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 称职.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 称职.

Directly before

  • 不是称职1
  • 很称职1
  • 需要称职1

Directly after

  • 称职的3
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 称职

What does 称职 mean in Chinese?

称职 (chènzhí) means well qualified.

How do you pronounce 称职?

称职 is pronounced chènzhí.

Is 称职 an HSK word?

称职 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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