状元

zhuàng yuánzhuangyuan

  1. top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)
  2. top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]
  3. (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field
  4. leading light

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences