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总
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Definitions
- 1. general; overall
- 2. to sum up
- 3. in every case; always; invariably
- 4. anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later
- 5. surely
Example Sentences
1 shown他 总 是在笑。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 总
gross weight
general headquarters
altogether
former prime minister
All-China Sports Federation
sum
head
overall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company)
total
premier
total output
(military) Chief of Staff
(computing) front-side bus (FSB)
GATT, the 1995 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
always
general headquarters
to collect together
general manager
to aggregate; to calculate the total
total energy
chairman
gross domestic production (GDP)
executive chef
gross product
eventually
Hong Kong Football Association
consulate general
must
president of the association
general matters
presidential election
club sandwich
total
headquarters
handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status)
vice-chairman (of an organization)
overall score
in short
Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英|项英[xiàng yīng] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[wǎn nán shì biàn]
total price
presidential system
governor-general
AQSIQ
general policy
presidential palace
formerly SAPPRFT, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013-2018) and SARFT, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (prior to 2013)
name used for cabinet ministers between 1912-1927, superseded by 部長|部长[bù zhǎng]
General Armaments Department (GAD)
finals (sports)
computer bus
stroke play (golf)
gross domestic product (GDP)
Universal Serial Bus, USB (computer)
in great abundance
CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation
lump-sum (finance)
to sum up
secretary-general
(military) General Political Department
Vajradhara
overview
commander-in-chief
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)
altogether; in sum; in all; in total
chief editor (of newspaper)
president (of a country)
data bus (computer)
Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi
childhood friend (idiom)
Dinosauria, superorder within class Sauropsida containing dinosaurs and birds
to sum up
at long last
total population
formal title of the Japanese prime minister
summary table
common vitelline duct
low-level officer of the army from the Ming to the mid Qing Dynasty
total (amount or value)
vice-president
chief operating officer (COO)
general counsel
General Administration of Press and Publication (PRC state censorship organization)
to gather (data etc)
total costs
general layout
main switch
total number of times
musical score
head office
consul general
General Administration of Customs (GAC)
general secretary (of the Communist Party)
central exchange
All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)
general office
childhood friend (idiom)
aggregate social demand
cooperative (organisation)
generic term
gross income
total profit
total value
archbishop
general rules; general principles; general provisions
former president
to cut a long story short
chief editor (of newspaper)
looking at the big picture
general headquarters
aggregate risk
a general overview
(grand) total
(military) General Staff Headquarters
terminus
total length
the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
(military) General Logistics Department
gross national product (GNP)
overall target
presidential election
Premier Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来 (1898-1976)
parent company
\Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques\, book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty
nightclub
Japanese colonial administration of Korea 1910-1945
nevertheless
Tettigonioidea (katydids and crickets)
National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), formerly SAPPRFT, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013-2018) and SARFT, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (prior to 2013)
see 把總|把总[bǎ zǒng]
(computing) file manager
vice-premier
front desk
(acoustics) total harmonic distortion (THD)
consulate general
gross calorific value
aggregate supply
generally speaking
presidential term of office
to assume full responsibility
GATT, the 1995 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
army Chief of Staff
overall plan
(PRC) State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), former incarnation (until 2008) of 環境保護部|环境保护部[huán jìng bǎo hù bù]
cumulative total
president (of a country)
general collection
completely
superorder (taxonomy)
general mobilization (for war etc)
aggregate demand
master air waybill (MAWB) (transport)
total return
inevitably there will be
PRC State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
in a word