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校长

xiào zhǎng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 校長 Measure word 个、位、名

校长 (xiào zhǎng) means "principal; headmaster". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 校长 means

1. (college, university) president
2. headmaster

The characters in 校长

• 校xiào(bound form) school; college; (bound form; military) field officer
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Example sentences

• 他一定是校长。
  He must be the principal.
• 校长想跟你谈话。
  Xiàozhǎng xiǎng gēn nǐ tánhuà.
  The principal wants to talk to you.
• 我校校长很老了。
  Our school's principal is very old.
• 他刚成为一名校长。
  Tā gāng chéngwéi yī míngxiào cháng.
  He has just become headmaster.
• 校长向每个毕业生颁发了毕业证书。
  Xiàozhǎng xiàng měi gè bìyèshēng bānfā le bìyèzhèngshū.
  The principal presented each of the graduates with diploma.

Words containing 校长

• 副校长fù xiào zhǎngvice-principal

Where 校长 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Extended Family (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiào zhǎng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.