Meaning of zhuangyuan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
   historical
2. Someone who places first the in the modern gaokao college entrance examination.

Examples

“Another inscriber who not only received the jinshi degree in 1801 but was the first among the equals, or the zhuangyuan, is Gu Gao (1763-1832).”

“The system had been launched in the early Tang period, when the zhuangyuan had been first on the list of applicants submitted to the emperor.”

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