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首任

shǒu rèn

2-character word

What 首任 means

1. first person to be appointed to a post

The characters in 首任

• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)
• 任rènto assign; to appoint; to take up a post

Sounds the same

Read shǒu rèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

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