HSK 3 · Education, Work

校长 xiàozhǎng “principal of school” in Chinese

Traditional 校長

What 校长 means

  1. principal of school
  2. president
  3. headmaster
  4. (college, university) president

Measure word 个 gè or 位 wèi · 一个校长 yí ge xiàozhǎng

How to say 校长

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale校xiào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale长zhǎng3rd tone, dipping

校长 in a sentence

  1. 校长想跟你谈话。

    Xiàozhǎng xiǎng gēn nǐ tánhuà.

    The principal wants to talk to you.

    Sentence #5555771 from Tatoeba

  2. 校长向每个毕业生颁发了毕业证书。

    Xiàozhǎng xiàng měi ge bìyèshēng bānfā le bìyè zhèngshū.

    The principal presented each graduate with a certificate.

    Sentence #599697 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 校长 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 校 (xiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
校xiàoschool; college
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 交to connect · jiāoSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 交 (jiāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiào.

The character 长 (cháng) drawn as one shape
长zhǎngchief

长 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidSimplified from 長, drawn from a person with long hair: long (cháng), and to grow (zhǎng).

How to write 校长

校 10 strokes · 长 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

校长 (xiàozhǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 校长 (xiàozhǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 校长

Words with 校

学校xuéxiào · school校园xiàoyuán · campus

Words with 长

长cháng · long长城Chángchéng · the Great Wall长江Cháng Jiāng · Yangtze River长辈zhǎngbèi · elder成长chéngzhǎng · to grow up延长yáncháng · to prolong长途chángtú · long distance生长shēngzhǎng · to grow漫长màncháng · very long擅长shàncháng · to be good at

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FAQs

校长 (xiàozhǎng) means “principal of school” or “president”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it xiàozhǎng: xiào with a 4th tone, then zhǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 校长 is written 校長. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè) or 位 (wèi). For example, one principal of school is 一个校长 (yí ge xiàozhǎng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaozhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 校长 from the suggestions. Typing xiaozhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
校长 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.