| | master / host / owner / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | great master / master | HSK 6 |
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| | to learn; to master / institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | HSK 6 |
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| | host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor / (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director | HSK 6 |
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| | master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person | HSK 5 |
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| | to grasp (often fig.) / to control / to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny) / to master / to know well / to understand sth well and know how to use it / fluency | HSK 5 |
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| | the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院 | |
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| | owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to dominate / to rule / to dictate / master | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to obtain / to master / overhand (serve etc) / seat of honor | |
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| | teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops | |
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| | master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個｜个, 位, 名 | HSK 5 |
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| | (respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather | |
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| | master of the house; head of the family | |
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| | famous master / great teacher | |
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| | Master of Business Administration (MBA) | |
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| | expert / past master / dab hand | HSK 6 |
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| | used for 師傅｜师傅 (in Taiwan) / master / qualified worker | HSK 6 |
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| | (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy; sacred | |
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| | term used by a teacher or master to refer to themself when speaking to their student | |
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| | master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine | |
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| | to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs | |
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| | hegemon / tyrant / lord / feudal chief / to rule by force / to usurp / (in modern advertising) master | |
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| | master / famous artist or sportsman | |
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| | to bow to; to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness) | |
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| | one who can correct a misread or misspelt character and thus be your master | |
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| | monk who has mastered the scriptures; (esp.) Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664) | |
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| | to be proficient in / to master (a subject) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | revered master | |
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| | Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee | |
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| | overall plan / master plan | |
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| | to urge on (of horse) / to drive / to steer / to handle / to manage / to master / to dominate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | master sleuth / lit. miraculous detective / cf Sherlock Holmes 福爾摩斯｜福尔摩斯 or Di Renjie 狄仁傑｜狄仁杰 | |
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| | master key / skeleton key / passkey | |
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| | master and servant | |
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| | son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) | |
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| | great master (of literature, music etc) | |
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| | Master (term used by servant) / Your Majesty / operator (of machine) | |
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| | to study / to learn from a master / (pupil's first person pronoun) I, your student | |
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| | Master's degree student | |
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| | lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievements in any task, provided you put it enough love and diligence | |
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| | (Mohism) master; leader / an authority; a prominent figure / tycoon; magnate | |
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| | Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant | |
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| | master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house / (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others | |
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| | mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous study. / Excellence in work is only possible with diligence. / Practice makes perfect. | |
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| | "exam master", sb who takes many exams and aces all of them | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話｜评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | master tape | |
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| | Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), famous master of Beijing opera, specialist in female roles | |
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| | my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp | |
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| | feng shui master / geomancer / stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan | |
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| | Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry | |
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| | the original / original document / master copy | |
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| | literary master | |
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| | Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism | |
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| | a real person / Daoist spiritual master | |
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| | eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | master craftsman / Han dynasty official title | |
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| | Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮｜高罗佩 | |
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| | master sergeant | |
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| | lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom) / fig. to fawn on sb / to bow and scrape / to grovel | |
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| | bathroom infrared heater, marketed as "bath master" | |
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| | disciple / student (of a famous master) | |
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| | to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc) | |
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| | to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc) | |
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| | master (i.e. employer) / landlord / boss | |
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| | founding master of a monastery / founder / originator | |
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| | the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink | |
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| | higher education record / record including Master's or Doctoral degree | |
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| | underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting | |
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| | master's degree | |
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| | Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy | |
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| | person with remarkable academic or artistic attainments / master craftsman / highly esteemed person | |
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| | master air waybill (MAWB) (transport) | |
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| | master of ceremonies (MC) | |
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| | (dialect) boss's son / rich man's son / young master | |
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| | to pass on doctrines from master to disciple (Buddhism) | |
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| | sporting coach / military drill master (in Song times) | |
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| | to master (a skill) | |
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| | Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters of the Qianlong-Jiaqing period 乾嘉三大家 | |
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| | extensive but not refined (idiom); to know something about everything / jack-of-all-trades, master of none | |
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| | lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom) / fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him | |
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| | teacher / master | |
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| | young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate | |
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| | well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword | |
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| | Master Zhu, another name for Zhu Xi 朱熹 | |
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| | Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master | |
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| | master-slave (computing) / client-server (computing) / primary and secondary | |
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| | honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master" | |
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| | (old) to report to one's master | |
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| | boxing coach / pugilist master | |
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| | lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom) / fig. deep reverence for one's master | |
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| | one who has mastered the sutras (Buddhism) | |
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| | lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master | |
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| | the K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, possibly forged in third century by Wang Su 王肅｜王肃 | |
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| | to formally become an apprentice to a master | |
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| | young lady of the house / wife of the young master | |
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| | title of a Daoist priest / revered master | |
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| | boss's son / young master; young boss | |
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| | Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑｜狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee | |
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