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zhuangyuan

/d͡ʒwɑːŋ.juˈæn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zhuangyuan
IPA
/d͡ʒwɑːŋ.juˈæn/
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.

noun

Someone who places first the in the modern gaokao college entrance examination.

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元 /状元 (zhuàngyuán).

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Questions

How do you pronounce zhuangyuan?
The recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒwɑːŋ.juˈæn/.
What does zhuangyuan mean?
Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
Where does zhuangyuan come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元 /状元 (zhuàngyuán).

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