县长

縣長

xiànzhǎng

noun #41,732

Measure Word

一位县长 wèi

Meanings

1 county head
2 county magistrate
3 head commissioner of a county

Characters

Examples

新县长上任后第一件事就是修路。

Xīn xiànzhǎng shàngrèn hòu dìyī jiàn shì jiùshì xiūlù.

The first thing the new county head did after taking office was repair the roads.

县长亲自接待了来访的记者。

Xiànzhǎng qīnzì jiēdài le láifǎng de jìzhě.

The county head personally received the visiting journalists.

他从乡长一路做到了县长。

Tā cóng xiāngzhǎng yílù zuòdào le xiànzhǎng.

He worked his way up from township head all the way to county head.

Tips

culture

A 县 (county) sits below the prefecture level in China's administrative hierarchy, so 县长 is the chief executive of a unit that may cover hundreds of thousands of people. In imperial times the equivalent was 知县 — the post immortalized in countless period dramas as "the magistrate."

Stroke Order

县 xiàn

长 cháng