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to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
HSK 3
captain / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
group leader
HSK 2
brains / mind / skull / (fig.) gist (of a matter) / leader / boss
HSK 3
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
lead / leading / to lead / leadership / leader / CL: , 個|个
HSK 3
leader
HSK 7-9
Mao Zedong (1893–1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935–1976
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
leader
HSK 6
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader
Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal
deputy leader / the second-in-command
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特
leader / the one in control / main (part, character etc)
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975
leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film)
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure / to group around a revered leader / to revolve around sb
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
head (of state) / summit (meeting) / leader
HSK 6
to lead a group / leader of a group / captain (of sports squad)
HSK 7-9
to lead a team / to lead a group / group leader / (tourism) tour guide
HSK 7-9
leader
Husain or Hussein (name) / Hussein (c. 626-680), Muslim leader whose martyrdom is commemorated at Ashura / Saddam Hussein al Tikriti (1937-2006), dictator of Iraq 1979-2003
commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods
(idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader
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 / (fig.) a mastermind
general / military leader / fierce man
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
An Lushan (703-757), Tang general, leader of the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂|安史之乱
boss / gang leader
Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (1814-1864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure
ringleader / gang leader / chieftain
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
head of state / government leader
(Mohism) master; leader / an authority; a prominent figure / tycoon; magnate
Koxinga (1624-1662), military leader
spiritual leader (of a nation or church) / religious leader
Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), leader of a late-Ming peasant revolt
fierce general / valiant military leader / fig. brave individual
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
HSK 7-9
head of a clan / natural leader / person of prestige and authority in a domain / suzerain
badge / insignia / lapel badge (e.g. with miniature portrait of great national leader)
Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown
ruling class / leaders (of society) / oligarchy
Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
Khamenei, Ayatollah Aly (1939-), Supreme Leader of Iran, aka Ali Khamenei
Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645)
Garab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders
lit. a thunder of dragons without a head / fig. a group lacking a leader
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
leadership group / collective of leaders
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
Li Zicheng (1605-1645), leader of peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty
Peng Zhen (1902-1997), Chinese communist leader
Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist
Zhang Wentian (1900-1976), CCP party leader and theorist
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子|吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group
team leader (archaic) / shopkeeper (archaic)
Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist
head person / leader
Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader
Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom) / fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-), Myanmar opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate / also written 昂山素姬
Cai E (1882–1916), military leader who was a key figure in the establishment the National Protection Army 護國軍|护国军, which in 1916 fought the forces of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯, who had tried to reestablish the monarchy with himself as emperor
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) Great Leader of North Korea
(finance) leading stock; market leader
Shih Ming-teh (1941–2024), Taiwanese politician, imprisoned 1962–1977 and 1980–1990 under the Guomindang, subsequently a leader of DPP 民進黨|民进党, in 2006 led protests against Chen Shui-Bian 陳水扁|陈水扁
Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
leader
first place / leader (of a race)
Massoud (name) / Ahmed Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Tajik Afghan engineer, military man and anti-Taleban leader
She Xiang (c. 1361-1396), lady who served as Yi ethnic group leader in Yunnan in early Ming times
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
important political leader / government dignitary
Lin Biao (1908–1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
Deng Yingchao (1904-1992), Chinese communist leader, wife of Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来
platoon leader / sergeant
Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibetan religious leader, founder of the Gelugpa school 格魯派|格鲁派
Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948
leader of a theatrical troupe
Chen Sheng (died 208 BC), Qin dynasty rebel, leader of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义
Jiashan Temple, Buddhist temple in Shimen county 石門縣|石门县, Changde 常德, Hunan, the purported final home and burial place of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
(Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician

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