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general / admiral / air chief marshal
department head / section chief
HSK 6
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
chief operating officer (COO)
party chief
editor in chief
HSK 7-9
commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess
criminal ringleader / chief culprit / fig. cause of a problem
section chief / CL: 個|个
top general / commander-in-chief
district chief
to act as the chief surgeon / chief surgeon
head of a (government etc) department / section chief / section head / secretary / minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 3
main job / day job / steady full-time job (as opposed to temporary or casual) / chief or principal post (as opposed to deputy)
village chief; village head
(military) commander-in-chief / (sports) team manager / coach
(Tw) chief executive
village chief / mayor (of village or township)
chief offender / main culprit
commander-in-chief (military) / star player (sports) / key figure (in an organization)
to attend (a banquet etc) to keep a chief guest company
chief editor (of newspaper)
chief labor contractor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帅* | 帅* | *帅
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
HSK 4
to be in charge of (a major area of responsibility) / person in charge; manager / (old) butler (of a rich family); chief steward
chief executive / magistrate
(military) marshal; commander-in-chief
royal crown / official hat / official / leader / chief / elegant and stately
secretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party) / clerk / scribe
HSK 7-9
commander-in-chief / top military commander for a country or theater of operations
Tung Chee-hwa (1937-), Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician, chief executive 1997-2005
chief offender / main culprit
chief editor (of newspaper) / abbr. for 總編輯|总编辑
lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran
bureau chief
HSK 6
section chief (of an administrative unit) / head (of a department)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *首* | 首* | *首
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 4
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *长* | 长* | *长
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
HSK 2
bureau chief / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
consul (of the Roman Republic) / magistrate (chief administrator)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *霸* | 霸* | *霸
hegemon / tyrant / lord / feudal chief / to rule by force / to usurp / (in modern advertising) master
Wu Renbao (1928-2013), former CCP chief of Huaxi Village 華西村|华西村, responsible for turning it into a modern rich community
the three judicial chief ministries (in imperial China)
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / cf four horsemen of the apocalypse
army Chief of Staff
(military) Chief of Staff
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
HSK 6
chief executive officer (CEO)
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
head / chief
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神
chief judicial officer in imperial China
chief operating officer (COO)
(old) commanding general / commander-in-chief / (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督
command / commander-in-chief
formal wife of a Xiongnu chief during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
chief technology officer (CTO)
He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, Chief Executive 1999-2009
Modi (name) / Narendra Modi (1950-), Indian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party or Indian People's Party) politician, Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001, PM from 2014
chief accounting officer / controller / comptroller / (Han Dynasty) treasurer
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao) / abbr. for 特別行政區首席執行官|特别行政区首席执行官
Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)
one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera / Peking opera / also written 二簧 / see also 西皮
(old) chief coffin bearer / (fig.) argumentative person / a kind of bread made with a dough flattened using a rolling pin 槓子|杠子
Emirate / Sheikdom / used as translation for country under a chief
a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) / overlord / hegemon
deputy chief
new emperor, new officials (idiom) / a new chief brings in new aides
Leung Chun-ying (1954-), 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
chief information officer (CIO)
Sir Donald Tsang, aka Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944–), the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong (2005–2012)
chief operating officer (COO) (Tw)
(army) commander-in-chief (archaic) / provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
chief marketing officer (CMO)
chief / first / brightest and best
archenemy / chief enemy
Hu Xijin (1960-), editor-in-chief of the "Global Times" 環球時報|环球时报 2005-2021
the most important / of chief importance
HSK 7-9
chief cabinet secretary (Japan)
the monarch and his ministers / tribal chief
one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera / see also 二黃|二黄
chief of staff
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence
Anson Chan (1940-), chief secretary for administration, Hong Kong (1997-2001)
chief financial officer (CFO)
Waldersee (name) / Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍|八国联军
Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review
Mladić (name) / Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and convicted war criminal
Carrie Lam (1957-), chief executive of Hong Kong 2017-, full name 林鄭月娥|林郑月娥 Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
Kim Kye-gwan (1943-), North Korean diplomat, first vice-foreign minister and chief negotiator 2010-2019
head; boss; chief
Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One
Chief Justice
chief representative
Yang Xiuqing (1821-1856), organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion
governor (of a province) / provincial chief (old)
person in charge of a (section or department) / head / chief / director / (in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長|风纪股长 discipline monitor
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *魁* | 魁* | *魁
chief / head / outstanding / exceptional / stalwart

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