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诸位

zhūwèi

everyone; ladies and gentlemen

A speaker greeting an audience from a lectern
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Characters in this word

诸 zhū

Strokes
10
Radical
讠 — words, speech
Made of
讠 words, speech 者 that which
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 诸

位 wèi

Strokes
7
Radical
亻 — man, person
Made of
亻 man, person 立 to stand
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 在正式答辩开始之前,我想先感谢诸位评审在百忙之中审阅这篇论文。 Zài zhèngshì dábiàn kāishǐ zhīqián, wǒ xiǎng xiān gǎnxiè zhūwèi píngshěn zài bǎimáng zhī zhōng shěnyuè zhè piān lùnwén. Before the formal defence begins, I would first like to thank all the reviewers for examining this thesis despite their busy schedules.
  • 诸位请坐,会议马上就开始了。 Zhūwèi qǐng zuò, huìyì mǎshàng jiù kāishǐ le. Please take your seats, everyone; the meeting is about to begin.
  • 谢谢诸位今天的支持,我们收获很大。 Xièxie zhūwèi jīntiān de zhīchí, wǒmen shōuhuò hěn dà. Thank you all for your support today; we gained a lot.

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