主席

		to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary	banquet; woven mat; seat banquet; woven mat; seat; place
simp. and trad. (主席)		主	席

主席

1. chairperson (of a meeting); leader of meeting (Classifier: 位)

   今天開會是你的主席。 [MSC, trad.]
   今天开会是你的主席。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jīntiān kāihuì shì nǐ de zhǔxí. [Pinyin]

   You will chair today's meeting.

2. chairperson (of a country or a party); chairman or chairwoman; president; premier (Classifier: 位)

   毛主席  ―  Máo zhǔxí  ―  Chairman Mao (specifically Mao Zedong)

• 主席 (zhǔxí) is only used to refer to the President of the People's Republic of China, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, President of the Republic of Cuba, while the presidents of all other republics are referred to as 總統／总统 (zǒngtǒng).
• The current trend in regards to the PRC is to translate this term as "president" rather than "chairman". See President of the People's Republic of China on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• (president of the PRC, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba): 國家主席／国家主席 (guójiā zhǔxí)

Others:

• → Bouyei: zujxif
• → Tibetan: ཀྲུའུ་ཞི (kru'u zhi)
• → Zhuang: cujsiz

• 首相 (shǒuxiàng)
• 議長／议长 (yìzhǎng)
• 宰相 (zǎixiàng), 丞相 (chéngxiàng)
• 總理／总理 (zǒnglǐ)
• 總統／总统 (zǒngtǒng)
• 閣揆／阁揆 (gékuí)

Kanji in this term
主	席
しゅ Grade: 3	せき Grade: 4
on'yomi

• IPA^(key): [ɕɨse̞kʲi]

主(しゅ)席(せき) • (shuseki) 

1. (government) president (of a socialist state)
2. chairperson, chairman, chairwoman
3. top-ranked seat

Hanja in this term
主	席

主席 • (juseok) (hangeul 주석)

1. hanja form^? of 주석 (“chairman”)

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
主	席

主席

1. chữ Hán form of chủ tịch (“president, chairperson”).