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| | captain / team leader / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | lead / leading / to lead / leadership / leader / CL: 位, 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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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 |
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| | brains / mind / skull / (fig.) gist (of a matter) / leader / boss | HSK 3 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | leader | HSK 6 |
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| | head (of state) / summit (meeting) / leader | HSK 6 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to lead a group / leader of a group / captain (of sports squad) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lead a team / to lead a group / group leader / (tourism) tour guide | HSK 7-9 |
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| | leader | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | platoon leader / sergeant | |
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| | (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda | |
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| | Shun (c. 23rd century BC), mythical sage and leader | |
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| | general / military leader / fierce man | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | royal crown / official hat / official / leader / chief / elegant and stately | |
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| | ringleader / gang leader / chieftain | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir | |
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| | boss / gang leader | |
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| | fierce general / valiant military leader / fig. brave individual | |
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| | Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu | |
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| | head of a clan / natural leader / person of prestige and authority in a domain / suzerain | |
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| | head person / leader | |
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| | team leader (archaic) / shopkeeper (archaic) | |
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| | Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader | |
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| | leader | |
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| | Abbas (name) / Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005 | |
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| | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader | |
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| | founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure | |
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| | leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film) | |
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| | important political leader / government dignitary | |
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| | Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | leader of a theatrical troupe | |
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| | first place / leader (of a race) | |
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| | Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011 | |
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| | Khamenei, Ayatollah Aly (1939-), Supreme Leader of Iran, aka Ali Khamenei | |
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| | deputy leader / the second-in-command | |
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| | Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645) | |
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| | O'Connor (name) / Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist political leader | |
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| | leader / the one in control / main (part, character etc) | |
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| | leader of herd / stag | |
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| | to be born / arrival of newborn / birth (of a savior or religious leader) | |
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| | lit. a thunder of dragons without a head / fig. a group lacking a leader | |
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| | Mullah (religious leader in Islam) | |
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| | commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | badge / insignia / lapel badge (e.g. with miniature portrait of great national leader) | |
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| | Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, president of Yugoslavia 1945-1980 | |
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| | (idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader | |
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| | Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Xiaohao (c. 2200 BC), leader of the Dongyi 東夷|东夷 or Eastern Barbarians | |
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| | to endorse (sb for leader) | |
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| | Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989 | |
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| | class president (in a school) / class captain / cohort leader | |
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| | Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han | |
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| | Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), Palestinian leader | |
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| | Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | |
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| | Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | Zhang Bao (-184), leader of the Yellow Turban rebels during the late Han 漢朝|汉朝 | |
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| | Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses | |
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| | Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist | |
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| | Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four | |
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| | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市 | |
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| | A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible | |
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| | Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army | |
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| | rebel leader; ringleader; bandit chieftain | |
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| | Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976 | |
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| | Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917 | |
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| | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" | |
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| | substitution / replacing former general / change of leader | |
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| | head of state / government leader | |
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| | Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibetan religious leader, founder of the Gelugpa school 格魯派|格鲁派 | |
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| | Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938 | |
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| | Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader | |
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| | Peng Zhen (1902-1997), Chinese communist leader | |
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| | Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group | |
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| | female gang leader / the top woman in her field; doyenne; matriarch | |
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| | Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 | |
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| | spiritual leader (of a nation or church) / religious leader | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), Chinese communist military leader | |
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| | Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011 | |
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| | 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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