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  *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
brains / mind / skull / (fig.) gist (of a matter) / leader / boss
HSK 3
boss / superior
HSK 7-9
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
working hand; member of a work team; participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手)
HSK 7-9
boss / business proprietor / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
party boss
female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
boss / gang leader
local bully / tyrant / regional mafia boss
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
the boss
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
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
cell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone / mob boss
master (i.e. employer) / landlord / boss
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
(dialect) boss's son / rich man's son / young master
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
lit. big crocodile / fig. major figure / big shot / top boss (esp. criminal)
lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things
to boss people around (idiom)
(Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister
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
(ironically) "secretary" (i.e. boss's mistress)
boss's son / young master; young boss
(coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss; the big cheese; the top dog
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
higher authority / the bosses / on top of
to skip a grade / to bypass ranks / to go over the head of one's boss
big boss / leader of a group / dominant (position)
gang leader / mafia boss
to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders / always bossing people around
head; boss; chief


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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