"Principal" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhǔ yào main / principal / major / primary
 zhèng straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive
 běn jīn capital / principal
 xiào jiàn supervisor (of school) / principal
 jī jīn běn jīn principal
 fǎ dìng dài biǎo rén (law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)
 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
 zhǔ yào rèn wu main task / principal duty
 yīn yuán chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect
 zhǔ xuán lu:4 (music) theme / principal melody / (fig.) central theme / main idea / (of a movie) created with the purpose of promoting Party values and point of view
 zhǔ yào yīn sù main factor / principal cause
 zhǔ zhóu axis / principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc) / main axle (of engine)
 Sòng Jiāng Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传
 běn xī principal and interest (on a loan)
 zhèng zhí main job / day job / steady full-time job (as opposed to temporary or casual) / chief or principal post (as opposed to deputy)
 zhǔ yīn keynote / principal tone / tonic / vowel
 zhǔ dòng mài aorta / principal artery
 zhǔ diào main point of an argument / a principal viewpoint
 zhǔ cái principal or main material (engineering)
 yuán xūn leading light / founding father / principal proponent
 lián běn dài lì both principal and interest / capital plus profit
 zhǔ fǎ xiàng liàng principal normal vector (to a space curve)
 zhǔ yào mù dì main aim / principal goal
 Fù Shuō Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding
 Dài zōng another name for Mt Tai 泰山 / in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls
 jùn zhì seat of the principal county magistrate in imperial China
 shǒu xiàn principal county magistrate in imperial China
  principal legal officer
  Principal Accounting Assistant
  Principal Evaluation Officer
  principal place of business
  principal place of business
  Principal Working Party on Inland Water Transport
  Principal Working Party on Rail Transport
  Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
  Principal Accounts Clerk
  Principal Technical Officer
  Principal Office
  Principal Security Adviser
  Principal Working Party on Road Transport
I  Principal Field Service Officer I
  Principal Officer
  Principal Deputy Special Representative / Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
  Principal Deputy Special Representative / Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
  Principal Global Indicators
  Principal Global Indicators
 shǒu xí zhù lǐ mì shū zhǎng Principal Assistant Secretary-General
  Principal Officer for Economic, Social and Development Affairs
 shǒu xí shū jì guān Principal Registrar
 shǒu xí biàn hù rén Principal Defender
  Office of the Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
 shǒu xí fǎ lu:4 gù wèn bàn gōng shì Office of the Principal Legal Adviser
  Principal Administrative Management Officer
II  Principal Field Service Officer II
  Principal Liaison Officer
  Principal Inter-Regional Fisheries Adviser
  Principal Programmer Technician
  Principal Programme Officer
  Principal Technical Adviser
  Principal Officer on Gender Mainstreaming
  principal earner
  Principal Economist
  Principal Investigators' approval / PI approval
  Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Operations and Rule of Law
  main organ / main body / principal organ
  principal political adviser
  Principal Legal Adviser
  Deputy Principal Legal Adviser
  Principal Adviser, Ethics
 Wò lún · Bā fēi tè Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway
 Ruǎn An1 Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer of the Forbidden City
 běn lì principal and interest / capital and profit
· Wò lún · Bā fēi tè Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway
 shào yáng jīng lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM)
 běn zūn (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
 zhǔ sù (medicine) to complain of / a patient's brief account of their illness / (law) main suit / principal claim
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