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县太爷
xiàn​tài​yé

county magistrate

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县太爷 縣太爺 xiàn​tài​yé
county magistrate
Common name for a county magistrate in imperial China; also used as a humorous nickname for a modern county head or to mock a local leader with a bureaucratic style.

Frequency

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0.242 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 县令 xiàn​lìng

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)