| 大使 | dà shǐ | ambassador / envoy / CL:名[ming2],位[wei4] |   |
| 形象代言人 | xíng xiàng dài yán rén | (brand or organization) ambassador / face (of a brand or company) | |
| 代言 | dài yán | to be a spokesperson / to be an ambassador (for a brand) / to endorse | |
| 召回 | zhào huí | to recall (a product, an ambassador etc) | |
| 特使 | tè shǐ | special envoy / special ambassador | |
| 派驻 | pài zhù | to dispatch (sb) in an official capacity / to be posted (as an ambassador, foreign correspondent etc) | |
| 形象大使 | xíng xiàng dà shǐ | person who represents an organization and enhances its image / an ambassador | |
| 雷德 | Léi dé | Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009 | |
| 出使 | chū shǐ | to go abroad as ambassador / to be sent on a diplomatic mission | |
| 蒙代尔 | Méng dài ěr | Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996 | |
| 伯恩斯 | Bó ēn sī | Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022- | |
| 塞拉凡 | sài lā fán | (Sonny) Seraphin (Haitian ambassador to Taiwan) | |
| 尚慕杰 | Shàng mù jié | James Sasser (1936-), US Ambassador to China 1995-1999 | |
| 维尔容 | Wéi ěr róng | (Johannes Lodewikus) Viljoen (South African ambassador to Taiwan) | |
| 教廷大使 | jiào tíng dà shǐ | an ambassador of the church / an Apostolic Nuncio (from the Vatican) | |
| 丘尔金 | Qiū ěr jīn | Churkin (name) / Vitaly I. Churkin (1952-), Russian diplomat, Ambassador to UN from 2006 | |
| 使领官员 | shǐ lǐng guān yuán | ambassador and consul / diplomat | |
| 全权大使 | quán quán dà shǐ | plenipotentiary ambassador | |
| 加拉罕 | Jiā lā hǎn | Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge | |
| 尤德 | Yóu dé | Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador to Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986 | |
| 洪博培 | Hóng Bó péi | Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-), US politician, Governor of Utah 2005-2009, Ambassador to China 2009-2011 | |
| 薄瑞光 | Bó Ruì guāng | Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006 | |
| 司徒雷登 | Sī tú Léi dēng | John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China | |
| 无任所大使 | wú rèn suǒ dà shǐ | Ambassador at large | |
| 巡回大使 | xún huí dà shǐ | Ambassador at large | |
| 亲善大使 | qīn shàn dà shǐ | goodwill ambassador | |
| 向大使提问 | xiàng dài shǐ tí wèn | Ask an Ambassador | |
| 废除切割女性生殖器官习俗特别大使 | | Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation | |
| 非常驻大使 | fēi cháng zhù dài shǐ | non-resident ambassador | |
