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总理

zǒng lǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 總理 Measure word 个、位、名

总理 (zǒng lǐ) means "premier". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 总理 means

1. premier
2. prime minister

The characters in 总理

• 总zǒng(bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably
• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence

Example sentences

• 这是总理住的房子。
  Zhè shì zǒnglǐ zhù de fángzi.
  This is the house in which the prime minister lives.
• 他是这个国家的总理。
  Tā shì zhège guójiā de zǒnglǐ.
  He is the prime minister of this country.

Words starting with 总理

• 总理衙门zǒng lǐ yá menthe Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office

Words containing 总理

• 周总理Zhōu zǒng lǐPremier Zhou Enlai 周恩来 (1898-1976)
• 前总理qián zǒng lǐformer prime minister
• 国务总理guó wù zǒng lǐminister of state (old usage)
• 副总理fù zǒng lǐvice-premier; vice prime minister; deputy prime minister
• 内阁总理大臣Nèi gé Zǒng lǐ Dà chénformal title of the Japanese prime minister

Where 总理 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Talent, Personnel & Humanity (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zǒng lǐ correctly.
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