The prime minister dissolved the Diet.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
首相
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 首相 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 首相 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The country respects the Prime Minister.
The sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia is Dato' Seri Najib Abdul Razak.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 首相.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 首相.
Directly before
- 尊重首相2
- 第六任首相1
Directly after
- 首相是1
- 首相的1
- 首相解散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 首相
What does 首相 mean in Chinese?
首相 (shǒuxiàng) means prime minister (of Japan or UK etc).
How do you pronounce 首相?
首相 is pronounced shǒuxiàng.
Is 首相 an HSK word?
首相 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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