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HSK
group leader
HSK 2
captain / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
lead / leading / to lead / leadership / leader / CL: , 個|个
HSK 3
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
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
leader
HSK 6
head (of state) / summit (meeting) / leader
HSK 6
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
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
HSK 7-9
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
faucet; tap / bicycle handlebar / chief; boss (esp. of a gang) / (referring to a company) leader; front-runner / figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船|龙船
platoon leader / sergeant
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
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  *舜* | 舜* | *舜
Shun (c. 23rd century BC), mythical sage and leader
general / military leader / fierce man
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
royal crown / official hat / official / leader / chief / elegant and stately
ringleader / gang leader / chieftain
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)
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
boss / gang leader
fierce general / valiant military leader / fig. brave individual
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  *禹* | 禹* | *禹
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu
head of a clan / natural leader / person of prestige and authority in a domain / suzerain
head person / leader
team leader (archaic) / shopkeeper (archaic)
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader
leader
Abbas (name) / Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader
founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure
leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film)
important political leader / government dignitary
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
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
leader of a theatrical troupe
first place / leader (of a race)
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods
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
Khamenei, Ayatollah Aly (1939-), Supreme Leader of Iran, aka Ali Khamenei
deputy leader / the second-in-command
Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645)
O'Connor (name) / Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist political leader
leader / the one in control / main (part, character etc)
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  *麈* | 麈* | *麈
leader of herd / stag
to be born / arrival of newborn / birth (of a savior or religious leader)
lit. a thunder of dragons without a head / fig. a group lacking a leader
Mullah (religious leader in Islam)
commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959-1969
badge / insignia / lapel badge (e.g. with miniature portrait of great national leader)
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, president of Yugoslavia 1945-1980
(idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
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
Xiaohao (c. 2200 BC), leader of the Dongyi 東夷|东夷 or Eastern Barbarians
to endorse (sb for leader)
Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
class president (in a school) / class captain / cohort leader
Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han
Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Palestinian leader
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
Zhang Bao (-184), leader of the Yellow Turban rebels during the late Han 漢朝|汉朝
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
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
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown
Wu Guang (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
Pang Juan (-342 BC), military leader and political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
rebel leader; ringleader; bandit chieftain
Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
head of state / government leader
Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibetan religious leader, founder of the Gelugpa school 格魯派|格鲁派
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938
Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader
Peng Zhen (1902-1997), Chinese communist leader
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group
female gang leader / the top woman in her field; doyenne; matriarch
Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949
spiritual leader (of a nation or church) / religious leader
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
Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), Chinese communist military leader
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom) / fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader

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