CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

长官

zhǎngguān

senior official

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

senior official

senior officer

commanding officer

sir (term of address for senior officer)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 长官 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 长官 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

是的，长官。shì de， zhǎng guān。

Aye aye, sir.

我做不到，长官。wǒ zuò bú dào， zhǎng guān。

I can't do that, sir.

FSI人员:"长官，有一个网站，任何人都可以加上一个外国语言的句子!"。FSI主席:"什麽? 炸掉他们!"。FSI rén yuán:" zhǎng guān， yǒu yí gè wǎng zhàn， rèn hé rén dōu kě yǐ jiā shàng yí gè wài guó yǔ yán de jù zi!"。FSI zhǔ xí:" shén mó? zhà diào tā men!"。

FSI officer: "Sir, there is a website where ANYONE can add a sentence in a foreign language!". FSI president: "What?! Bomb them!".

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 长官

What does 长官 mean in Chinese?

长官 (zhǎngguān) means senior official.

How do you pronounce 长官?

长官 is pronounced zhǎngguān.

Is 长官 an HSK word?

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

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