Chinese symbol for “premier”
总理
zǒng lǐ
Traditional: 總理
premier; prime minister; 个 (gè),位 (wèi),名 (míng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for premier is 总理 (zǒng lǐ), defined as: premier; prime minister; 个 (gè),位 (wèi),名 (míng).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “premier”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 总理.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 总统 (總統) | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 总是 (總是) | zǒng shì | always |
| 总结 (總結) | zǒng jié | to sum up; to conclude |
| 总部 (總部) | zǒng bù | headquarters |
| 总之 (總之) | zǒng zhī | in a word; in short |
| 管理 | guǎn lǐ | to supervise; to manage |
| 处理 (處理) | chǔ lǐ | to handle; to deal with; to punish |
| 理论 (理論) | lǐ lùn | theory; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “premier”.
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.