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总统

zǒng tǒng 3–3 → 2–3

president (of a country)

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
总 · 统
Syllables
2
zǒng tǒng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 988

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 总zǒng9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 總collect; overall, altogether
  • 统tǒng9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 統govern, command, control; unite

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 他被选为总统。

    Tā bèi xuǎn wèi zǒng tǒng

    He was elected president.

  • 他后来写信给总统。

    Tā hòu lái xiě xìn gěi zǒng tǒng

    Later he wrote to the president.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 总统. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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