The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from狀元 /状元
- English todayzhuangyuan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元 /状元 (zhuàngyuán).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
zhuangyuan
Today it means: Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination. Full definition →
Mandarin 狀元 /状元