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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *头* | 头* | *头
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *板* | 板* | *板
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
boss / business proprietor / CL: 個|个
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
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
working hand; member of a work team; participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手)
HSK 7-9
boss / superior
HSK 7-9
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
to skip a grade / to bypass ranks / to go over the head of one's boss
head; boss; chief
(ironically) "secretary" (i.e. boss's mistress)
party boss
to boss people around (idiom)
boss / gang leader
master (i.e. employer) / landlord / boss
lit. big crocodile / fig. major figure / big shot / top boss (esp. criminal)
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
cell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone / mob boss
local bully / tyrant / regional mafia boss
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
(dialect) boss's son / rich man's son / young master
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
higher authority / the bosses / on top of
(coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss; the big cheese; the top dog
(Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister
female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife
boss's son / young master; young boss
gang leader / mafia boss
the boss
big boss / leader of a group / dominant (position)
lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things
to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders / always bossing people around
boss's son
Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008


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