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总裁

zǒng cái

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 總裁

总裁 (zǒng cái) means "chairman/CEO". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 总裁 means

1. chairman
2. director-general (of a company etc)

The characters in 总裁

• 总zǒng(bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably
• 裁cáito cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim

Example sentences

• 我提醒他要去会见总裁。
  Wǒ tíxǐng tā yào qù huìjiàn zǒngcái.
  I reminded him of his interview with the president.
• 他最终成了IBM的总裁。
  He finally became the president of IBM.
• 董事会一致决定任命她为执行总裁。
  Dǒngshìhuì yīzhì juédìng rènmìng tā wèi zhíxíng zǒngcái.
  The board unanimously decided to appoint her as CEO.
• 汤姆最初是看门人，但现在他是公司的总裁了。
  Tāngmǔ zuìchū shì kānménrén, dàn xiànzài tā shì gōngsī de zǒngcái le.
  Tom started as a janitor, but he's now the president of the company.
• 位于乔治亚州瓦尔多斯塔的南乔治亚山核桃公司是世界上最大的山核桃生产商之一，公司副总裁杰夫沃恩指出，去年中国购买了约 3,100 万至 3,600 万公斤山核桃，占美国去年山核桃总产量的三分之一。他表示，这导致山核桃价格飙升。
  Jeff Worn, the Vice President of the South Georgia Pecan Company in Valdosta, Georgia, one of the largest pecan producers in the world, says the Chinese bought about 31 to 36 million kilograms last year, a third of the entire U.S. pecan crop last year. He says that has raised the price of pecans precipitously.

Words containing 总裁

• 副总裁fù zǒng cáivice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company)…
• 霸道总裁bà dào zǒng cáihandsome high-powered businessman…

Where 总裁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Governance, Laws & Political Order (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 cái correctly.
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