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noun
Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Someone who places first the in the modern gaokao college entrance examination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元 /状元 (zhuàngyuán).
