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manager / director / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 2
director / head / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to direct / director (film etc)
HSK 3
chairman / director-general (of a company etc)
HSK 5
factory director
HSK 5
head / director (of an organizational unit) / (police) commissioner / inspector-general / rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration
HSK 6
host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor / (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director
HSK 6
chairman of the board of directors
HSK 7-9
board of directors
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *董* | 董* | *董
to supervise / to direct / director
to write and direct (a play, film etc) / playwright-director / choreographer-director / scenarist-director
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
Meiling (female name) / Zhou Meiling 周美玲 (1969-), Taiwanese gay film director
to direct a television or radio broadcast / director (TV, radio)
president or director (of association etc)
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925-2022), British theater director
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
(theater) (originally) non-leading actors; supporting cast; (now) key members of a production team (actors, directors, writers etc) / (by extension) key members of a group or organization
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
to play a major role in a creative endeavor (e.g. making a movie) / person who plays a key creative role (e.g. movie director)
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
Cui Wei (1912-1979), actor, dramatist and movie director
Quentin (name) / Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察 / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯)
Joan Chen (1961-), Chinese-born American actress and film director
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942-), Director of International Atomic Energy Agency 1997-2009 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
deputy director / assistant head
Jiang Wen (1963-), sixth generation Chinese movie director
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
deputy director / assistant manager
Wayne Wang (1949-), Chinese US film director
Wang Shuo (1958-), Chinese writer, director and actor
Danny Lee Sau-Yin (1953-), Hong Kong actor and director
Johnnie To (1955-), Hong Kong film director
Tsui Hark (1951-), Chinese movie director and producer
Wong Kar-wai (1956-), Hong Kong film director
Stephen Chow (1962-), Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director, known for his mo lei tau 無厘頭|无厘头 movies
Chen Kaige (1952-), Chinese movie director
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
film director
Benny Chan (Hong Kong film director)
(Tw) chairman (of a board of directors)
director general
conductor / director
Director of Board of Rites (Confucian)
Wu Yonggang (1907-1982), Chinese film director
Wu Tianming (1939-), PRC film director
Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
Miyazaki Gorō (1967-), Japanese film director
Ang Li (1954-), Taiwanese-American film director (films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍|卧虎藏龙 and Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山)
Lai Shengchuan (1954-), US-Taiwanese dramatist and director
Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director
deputy director / assistant manager
Miyazaki Hayao (1941-), Japanese director
assistant director / commissioner
Christine Choy (1964-), Chinese-American film director
coach; mentor; counselor; instructor; director; guide; conductor
Tim Robbins (1958-), American actor, director, activist and musician
the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc
Minister of Education / Director of Education Department
Li Ying (1963-), Japanese-educated Chinese documentary film director
Jet Li (1963-), Chinese martial artist, actor and film director
Yang Yueqing, Chinese-Canadian woman documentary film director
member of a board of directors
associate director


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