Chinese symbol for “headmaster”
校长
xiào zhǎng
Traditional: 校長
(college, university) president; headmaster; 个 (gè),位 (wèi),名 (míng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for headmaster is 校长 (xiào zhǎng), defined as: (college, university) president; headmaster; 个 (gè),位 (wèi),名 (míng).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 校长.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 校园 (校園) | xiào yuán | campus |
| 高校 | gāo xiào | universities and colleges; abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校 |
| 院校 | yuàn xiào | college; academy |
| 校区 (校區) | xiào qū | campus |
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 长期 (長期) | cháng qī | long-term; for a protracted period |
| 部长 (部長) | bù zhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
See also: Japanese symbol for “headmaster”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.