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 huáng jīn gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time)
 tóu děng first class / prime / main
 zǒng lǐ premier / prime minister / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
 shǒu xiàng prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
 Xiǎo quán Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
 Zhū gě Liàng Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 / during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / mastermind
 Bù lǎng Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
 chéng xiàng the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister
 zǎi xiàng prime minister (in feudal China)
 fù zǒng lǐ vice-premier / vice prime minister / deputy prime minister
 huā jì youthful time / prime of youth / flowering season
 shǒu tuī to regard as the foremost / to name as a prime example / to implement for the first time
 yuán dòng lì motive force / prime mover / first cause / agent
 miào líng (of a girl) in the prime of youth
 qiáng dàng prime time
 Sū gé lā dǐ Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José / Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
 zhuàng nián lit. robust years / prime of life / summer / able-bodied (fit for military service) / mature (talent, garden etc)
 qīng zhuàng nián the prime of one's life
 yīng nián the prime of one's life / youthful years
 Kǎ sī tè luó Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
 Lǐ Sī Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
 hé shù composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)
 fēng huá zhèng mào in one's prime
 xiàng guó prime minister (in ancient China)
 qián zǒng lǐ former prime minister
 zhì shù prime number
 Sā qiē ěr Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
 chí mù past one's prime
 shèng nián the prime of one's life
 qián shǒu xiàng former prime minister
耀 Lǐ Guāng yào Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
 sù shù prime number
 Tuō tuō Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 / and Jin 金史 / also written Tuoketuo 托克托
 Dí Rén jié Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案[Di2 gong1 an4] translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩[Gao1 Luo2 pei4]
 An1 bèi Jìn sān Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020
 Lǐ Xiǎn lóng Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀[Li3 Guang1 yao4], prime minister from 2004
 Qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill
 Lǐ Kè qiáng Li Keqiang (1955-), PRC politician, prime minister from 2013
 Hóng Sēn Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985
 Róng kè Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019
  prime mover
 zhì yīn shù prime factor (in arithmetic)
 zhèng dāng nián to be in the prime of life
 Tián zhōng Jiǎo róng Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993), Japanese politician, prime minister 1972-1974
 Shǔ xiàng the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4])
 zhōng míng lòu jìn past one's prime / in one's declining years
 yīng nián zǎo shì to die an untimely death (idiom) / to be cut off in one's prime
 Jí lā ní Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
 An1 wǎ ěr Anwar (name) / Anwar bin Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, deputy prime minister 1993-1998, imprisoned 1999-2004 on charges including alleged homosexual acts, subsequently overturned
 An1 Zhòng gēn An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ / Hirobumi 伊藤博文[Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] in 1909
线 běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn the first meridian / the prime meridian
 Gǔ jié lā ěr Gujral (name) / Inder Kumar Gujral (1919-2012), Indian Janata politician, prime minister 1997-1998
 Lā fǎ lán Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac
 Lǐ Péng Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown
 Ní hè lǔ Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
 Qiáo běn Lóng tài láng HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō / (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
 Wú Zuò dòng Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
 Xiǎo quán Chún yī láng KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō / (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
 Zhōu En1 lái Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
 Cūn shān Fù shì Tomiichi Murayama (1924-), former prime minister of Japan
 Dé wū pà Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946-), former prime minister of Nepal
 Gōng zé Xǐ yī Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), former Japanese prime minister
 Hǎi bù Jùn shù KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
 Lù Kè wén Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician, proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013
 Mǎ hā dí Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 1981-2003 and 2018-2020
 Sēn Xǐ lǎng MORI Yoshirō / (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
 Wáng Měng Wang Meng (325-375), prime minister to Fu Jian 苻堅|苻坚[Fu2 Jian1] of Former Qin 前秦[Qian2 Qin2]
 zhǔ xián prime, key or main suspect (law)
 hù sù (math.) coprime / relatively prime (having no common factor)
 Tā xìn Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006
·  ITŌ / Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin
 Nèi tǎ ní yà hú Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
 Nèi gé Zǒng lǐ Dà chén formal title of the Japanese prime minister
 Cè fǔ yuán guī Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 / and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls
 fù xiàng deputy prime minister
 Běi Sòng sì dà bù shū Four great compilations of Northern Song dynasty, namely: Extensive records of the Taiping era (978) 太平廣記|太平广记, Imperial readings of the Taiping era 太平御覽|太平御览, Prime tortoise of the record bureau 冊府元龜|册府元龟, Finest blossoms in the garden of literature 文苑英華|文苑英华
 hé chéng shù composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)
 míng xiàng famous prime minister (in ancient China) / names and appearances (Buddhism)
西 Hā xī nà Ms Sheikh Hasina (1947-), Bangladesh politician, prime minister 1996-2001 and from 2009
 Aī ěr duō ān Erdogan (name) / Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003-2014, president 2014-
 Dà Dōng yà Gòng róng quān Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 / in 1938
·  ABE Shinzō / (1954-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007
 Sòng sì dà shū Four great compilations of Northern Song dynasty, namely: Extensive records of the Taiping era (978) 太平廣記|太平广记, Imperial readings of the Taiping era 太平御覽|太平御览, Prime tortoise of the record bureau 冊府元龜|册府元龟, Finest blossoms in the garden of literature 文苑英華|文苑英华
·  KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō / (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
 shào zhuàng bù nǔ lì , lǎo dà tú shāng bēi if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age
 Bā ěr kè nèn dé Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands 2002-2010
 Bā luó zuǒ José / Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014
 nián qīng qì shèng full of youthful vigor (idiom) / in the prime of youth
 piě hào apostrophe ' (punct.) / accent mark / prime symbol (math.)
 Sā qiē ěr Fū ren Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
·  Stephen Harper (1959-), 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
 chūn qiū dǐng shèng the prime of one's life
 méi sēn sù shù Mersenne prime number (math.)
·  MORI Yoshirō / (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
 Bō cí tǎn huì yì Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
 Kē shí tú ní chá surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008
 Suǒ gē lā tè sī Socrates (name) / Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugal from 2005
 Xiāo Wàn cháng Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012
 Sà bā dé luó Zapatero (name) / José / Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011
·  Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
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