席
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woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 巾 +7
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 席
- Common rank
- #963
- Unicode
- U+5E2D
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Formation & memory
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Words with 席
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一席之地 | (acknowledged) place; a role to play; niche | |
| 国家主席 | president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations) | |
| 主席国 | chair country; country holding revolving presidency | |
| 首席大法官 | Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court) | |
| 流水席 | banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive | |
| 主席台 | rostrum; platform; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 出席者 | attendee | |
| 席德尼 | Sidney or Sydney (name) | |
| 一席话 | the content of a conversation; words; remarks | |
| 毛主席语录 | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published 1964–1979 and widely distributed during t… | |
| 毛主席 | Chairman Mao; Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东[Mao2 Ze2 dong1] (1893–1976), Chinese Communist leader | |
| 证人席 | witness stand or box | |
| 首席法官 | Chief Justice | |
| 听君一席话，胜读十年书 | listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (prove… | |
| 满汉全席 | the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty; (fig.) a sumptuous… | |
| 席地而坐 | (idiom) to sit on the ground or the floor | |
| 首席代表 | chief representative | |
| 联席会议 | joint conference | |
| 主席团 | presidium | |
| 席子 | woven mat |