当世之冠

Traditional form:

當世之冠

Pinyin (reading):

dāngshìzhīguàn

Definitions:

• the foremost person of his age
• unequalled
• a leading light

Characters:

• 当 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
• 世 - generation, era, age; world
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 冠 - cap, crown, headgear

Traditional characters:

• 當 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
• 世 - generation, era, age; world
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 冠 - cap, crown, headgear