"Boss" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | boss / business proprietor / CL:個|个[ge4] |   |
| 大哥 | dà gē | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss | |
| 老大 | lǎo dà | old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang | |
| 龙头 | lóng tóu | 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[long2chuan2] | |
| 头脑 | tóu nǎo | brains / mind / skull / (fig.) gist (of a matter) / leader / boss | |
| 老总 | lǎo zǒng | 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 | |
| 上司 | shàng si | boss / superior | |
| 首领 | shǒu lǐng | head / boss / chief | |
| 一把手 | yī bǎ shǒu | working hand / member of a work team / participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手[di4 yi1 ba3 shou3]) | |
| 东家 | dōng jiā | master (i.e. employer) / landlord / boss | |
| 头子 | tóu zi | boss / gang leader | |
| 头 |  tóu | 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[ge4] | |
| 大拿 | dà ná | (coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert | |
| 头家 | tóu jiā | organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor | |
| 大头目 | dà tóu mù | the boss | |
| 话事人 | huà shì rén | (coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss / the big cheese / the top dog | |
| 少爷 | shào ye | son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) | |
| 老板娘 | lǎo bǎn niáng | female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife | |
| 大哥大 | dà gē dà | cell phone (bulky, early-model one) / brick phone / mob boss | |
| 大鳄 | dà è | lit. big crocodile / fig. major figure / big shot / top boss (esp. criminal) | |
| 越级 | yuè jí | to skip a grade / to bypass ranks / to go over the head of one's boss | |
| 发号施令 | fā hào shī lìng | to boss people around (idiom) | |
| 地头蛇 | dì tóu shé | local bully / tyrant / regional mafia boss | |
| 少东 | shào dōng | boss's son / young master / young boss | |
| 党魁 | dǎng kuí | party boss | |
| 板 | bǎn | see 老闆|老板, boss | |
| 龙头老大 | lóng tóu lǎo dà | big boss / leader of a group / dominant (position) | |
| 角头 | jiǎo tóu | gang leader / mafia boss | |
| 赖昌星 | Lài Chāng xīng | Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008 | |
| 大姐头 | dà jiě tóu | (Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister | |
| 一个将军一个令 | yī gè jiāng jūn yī gè lìng | lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things | |
