独占鳌头 dúzhàn'áotóu to be the champion Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 独占鳌头 獨占鰲頭 dúzhàn'áotóu variant 獨佔鰲頭 to be the champion (idiom) to come out first; to be the very best in any field. Originally referred to the highest-ranking candidate in the imperial examinations standing on the stone turtle head outside the palace. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.712 per million Cross-References See 状元 zhuàngyuánAntonym 平分秋色 píngfēnqiūsèSame as 鳌头独占 áotóudúzhànSynonym 占鳌头 zhàn'áotóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
独占鳌头 獨占鰲頭 dúzhàn'áotóu variant 獨佔鰲頭 to be the champion (idiom) to come out first; to be the very best in any field. Originally referred to the highest-ranking candidate in the imperial examinations standing on the stone turtle head outside the palace. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.712 per million Cross-References See 状元 zhuàngyuánAntonym 平分秋色 píngfēnqiūsèSame as 鳌头独占 áotóudúzhànSynonym 占鳌头 zhàn'áotóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
