主席

主席

Chinese

		to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary	banquet; woven mat; seat banquet; woven mat; seat; place
simp. and trad. (主席)		主	席

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zhǔxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ ㄒㄧˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic): җўщи (žwxi, II-I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu² zik⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chú-si̍t
• Min Dong (BUC): ciō-sĭk
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chú-se̍k / chú-si̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zu² ciêh⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǔxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juushyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ɕi³⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic: җўщи (žwxi, II-I)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʂuː⁵¹ ɕiː²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu² zik⁶
    • Yale: jyú jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy² dzik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju² jig⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyː³⁵ t͡sɪk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-si̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu` xid
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu³ xid⁶
    • IPA: /t͡su³¹ ɕit̚⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciō-sĭk
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡suo³³⁻²¹ ^(s-)liʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú-se̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tsú-si̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zwsek
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɕiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɕiɪk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɕiɪk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú-si̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsú-si̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zwsit
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɕit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɕit̚²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zu² ciêh⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsú tshie̍h
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sʰieʔ⁴/

Noun

主席

1. chairperson (of a meeting); leader of meeting (Classifier: 位)
2. chairperson (of a country); chairman or chairwoman; president; premier (Classifier: 位)

   毛主席  ―  Máo zhǔxí  ―  Chairman Mao

   習主席 / 习主席  ―  Xí zhǔxí  ―  President Xi

Derived terms

主席團／主席团 副主席 (fùzhǔxí)

省主席

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (主席):

• → Japanese: 主席 (しゅせき) (shuseki)
• → Korean: 주석 (主席, juseok)
• → Vietnamese: chủ tịch (主席)

Others:

• → Bouyei: zujxif
• → Tibetan: ཀྲུའུ་ཞི (kru'u zhi)
• → Zhuang: cujsiz

See also

• 首相 (shǒuxiàng)
• 議長／议长 (yìzhǎng)
• 宰相 (zǎixiàng), 丞相 (chéngxiàng)
• 總理／总理 (zǒnglǐ)
• 總統／总统 (zǒngtǒng)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
主	席
しゅ Grade: 3	せき Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ɕɨᵝse̞kʲi]

Noun

主席 (hiragana しゅせき, rōmaji shuseki)

1. (government) president (of a socialist state)
2. chairperson, chairman, chairwoman
3. top-ranked seat

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Korean

Hanja in this term
主	席

Noun

主席 • (juseok) (hangeul 주석)

1. Hanja form^? of 주석 (“chairman”).

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
主	席

Noun

主席

1. Hán tự form of chủ tịch (“president”).