zhuàng yuán
状
元
Traditional
狀
元
Part of Speech
noun
Definitiontop scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)/see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]/top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]/(fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field/leading light