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CHINESE WORD
zhuàng yuan
状元
top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)
- Numbered pinyin
- zhuang4 yuan
- English meanings
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system), see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1], top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3], (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field, leading light
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