| 商人 | shāng rén | merchant / businessman |   |
| 商户 | shāng hù | merchant / trader / businessman / firm | |
| 外商 | wài shāng | foreign businessman | |
| 台商 | Tái shāng | Taiwanese businessman / Taiwanese company | |
| 爱迪生 | Aì dí shēng | Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman | |
| 范蠡 | Fàn Lǐ | Fan Li (536-488 BC), politician of Yue state, businessman and economist | |
| 李泽楷 | Lǐ Zé kǎi | Richard Li (1966-), Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist | |
| 辜振甫 | Gū Zhèn fǔ | Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat | |
| 郭台铭 | Guō Tái Míng | Guo "Terry" Taiming (1950-), prominent Taiwanese businessman, founder of Foxconn | |
| 李嘉诚 | Lǐ Jiā chéng | Sir Li Ka-shing (1928-), Hong Kong businessman | |
| 杨斌 | Yáng Bīn | Yang Bin (1963-), Chinese-Dutch businessman | |
| 吴作栋 | Wú Zuò dòng | Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 | |
| 金宇中 | Jīn Yǔ zhōng | Kim Woo-jung (1936-), Korean businessman and founder of the Daewoo Group | |
| 他信 | Tā xìn | Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | |
| 弗洛伦蒂诺·佩雷斯 | | Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club | |
| 李明博 | Lǐ Míng bó | Lee Myung-bak (1941-), South Korean businessman, one-time chairman of Hyundai, president of South Korea 2008-2013 | |
| 弃农经商 | qì nóng jīng shāng | to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom) | |
| 马云 | mǎ yún | Ma Yun (1964-), aka Jack Ma, Chinese billionaire businessman, co-founder of Alibaba 阿里巴巴[A1 li3 ba1 ba1] | |
| 彭博 | Péng bó | Bloomberg (name) / Michael Bloomberg (1942-), US billionaire businessman, politician and philanthropist | |
| 弗洛伦蒂诺・佩雷斯 | Fú luò lún dì nuò · Pèi léi sī | Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club | |
| 弗洛伦蒂诺·佩雷斯 | Fú luò lún dì nuò · Pèi léi sī | Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club | |
| 霸总 | bà zǒng | handsome high-powered businessman (abbr. for 霸道總裁|霸道总裁[ba4 dao4 zong3 cai2]) | |
| 霸道总裁 | bà dào zǒng cái | handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status) | |
| 钟睒睒 | Zhōng Shǎn shǎn | Zhong Shanshan (1954-), Chinese billionaire businessman, the founder and chairperson of Nongfu Spring 農夫山泉|农夫山泉[Nong2 fu1 Shan1 quan2] | |
