Tom became a minister.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
部长
head of a (government etc) department
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
head of a (government etc) department
02
section chief
03
section head
04
secretary
05
minister
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 部长 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 部长 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
He made his way to the minister.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 部长.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 部长.
Directly before
- 了部长2
- 从部长1
Directly after
- 部长计划1
- 部长那儿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 部长
What does 部长 mean in Chinese?
部长 (bùzhǎng) means head of a (government etc) department.
How do you pronounce 部长?
部长 is pronounced bùzhǎng.
Is 部长 an HSK word?
部长 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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