擢第
zhuó dì
Pinyin

Definition

擢第
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zhuó dì
  1. to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

第
dì
  1. 1 (prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)
  2. 2 order
  3. 3 (old) rank in the imperial examinations
  4. 4 mansion
  5. 5 (literary) but
  6. 6 just
第一
dì yī
  1. 1 first
  2. 2 number one
  3. 3 primary
第二
dì èr
  1. 1 second
  2. 2 number two
  3. 3 next
  4. 4 secondary
第五
dì wǔ
  1. 1 fifth
勃艮第
Bó gěn dì
  1. 1 Burgundy (Bourgogne), kingdom during medieval period, now region of France
印第安
Yìn dì ān
  1. 1 (American) Indian
  2. 2 native American
  3. 3 indigenous peoples of the Americas
印第安人
Yìn dì ān rén
  1. 1 American Indians
印第安纳
Yìn dì ān nà
  1. 1 Indiana, US state
印第安纳州
Yìn dì ān nà zhōu
  1. 1 Indiana, US state
及第
jí dì
  1. 1 to pass an imperial examination
品第
pǐn dì
  1. 1 grade (i.e. quality)
  2. 2 rank
宅第
zhái dì
  1. 1 residence
  2. 2 mansion
安第斯
Ān dì sī
  1. 1 the Andes mountain chain
安第斯山
Ān dì sī shān
  1. 1 the Andes mountain range
府第
fǔ dì
  1. 1 mansion house
  2. 2 official residence
擢升
zhuó shēng
  1. 1 to promote (sb)
  2. 2 to upgrade
  3. 3 to ascend
书香门第
shū xiāng mén dì
  1. 1 family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
次第
cì dì
  1. 1 order
  2. 2 sequence
  3. 3 one after another
法拉第
Fǎ lā dì
  1. 1 Faraday (name)
  2. 2 Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
甲第
jiǎ dì
  1. 1 residence of a noble
  2. 2 top candidate in the imperial examinations

Idioms (3)

擢发难数
zhuó fà nán shǔ
  1. 1 lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. innumerable (crimes)
书香门第
shū xiāng mén dì
  1. 1 family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
阖第光临
hé dì guāng lín
  1. 1 the whole family is invited (idiom)

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