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| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just |
| 站台 | zhàn tái | platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly endorse or campaign for (a candidate) / (Tw) (dated) website |
| 录取 | lù qǔ | to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate) |
| 考生 | kǎo shēng | exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam |
| 面试 | miàn shì | to be interviewed (as a candidate) / interview |
| 候选人 | hòu xuǎn rén | candidate / CL:名[ming2] |
| 票仓 | piào cāng | safe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate); a district in which a majority of voters consistently votes for a particular party or candidate |
| 三甲 | sān jiǎ | 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等[san1 ji2 jia3 deng3]) |
| 候补 | hòu bǔ | to wait to fill a vacancy / reserve (candidate) / alternate / substitute |
| 一甲 | yī jiǎ | 1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2], 榜眼[bang3 yan3], and 探花[tan4 hua1], respectively) |
| 候选 | hòu xuǎn | candidate (attributive) |
| 发榜 | fā bǎng | to publish a roll-call of successful candidates |
| 背书 | bèi shū | to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement |
| 博士生 | bó shì shēng | PhD student; doctoral candidate |
| 征选 | zhēng xuǎn | to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition |
| 海选 | hǎi xuǎn | (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition |
| 榜眼 | bǎng yǎn | candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2] |
| 人选 | rén xuǎn | choice of person / candidate |
| 参选 | cān xuǎn | to be a candidate in an election or other selection process / to run for office / to turn out to vote |
| 出榜 | chū bǎng | to publish class list of successful exam candidates |
| 解元 | jiè yuán | first-placed candidate in the provincial imperial examinations (old) |
| 贡士 | gòng shì | (old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿試|殿试[dian4 shi4]) |
| 铁票区 | tiě piào qū | (Tw) safe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate); a district in which a majority of voters consistently votes for a particular party or candidate |
| 独占鳌头 | dú zhàn áo tóu | (idiom) to come first in triennial palace examinations (refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand); to be the champion; to be the very best in any field |
| 得中 | dé zhòng | (as in an imperial examination) to be a successful candidate / to draw a winning ticket (in a lottery) |