Read Edit View history 独占鳌头 dúzhàn'áotóu to be the champion Origin Definitions Defs 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)