| 主导 | zhǔ dǎo | leading / dominant / prevailing / to lead / to direct / to dominate |   |
| 显性 | xiǎn xìng | visible / conspicuous / phanero- / dominant (gene) | |
| 龙头老大 | lóng tóu lǎo dà | big boss / leader of a group / dominant (position) | |
| 占优 | zhàn yōu | to dominate / dominant | |
| 优势木 | yōu shì mù | dominant tree / dominant (n.) | |
| 属音 | shǔ yīn | dominant (music) | |
| 大国 | dà guó | a power (i.e. a dominant country) | |
| 占优势 | zhàn yōu shì | to predominate / to occupy a dominant position | |
| 独尊 | dú zūn | to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant | |
| 占主导地位 | zhàn zhǔ dǎo dì wèi | dominant / predominant / to occupy a leading position | |
| 得势 | dé shì | to win power / to get authority / to become dominant | |
| 土豪劣绅 | tǔ háo liè shēn | local bosses, shady gentry (idiom) / dominant local mafia | |
| 崛立 | jué lì | to tower over / rising (to a dominant position) | |
| 弱受 | ruò shòu | submissive / yielding / weak / opposite: 強攻|强攻, dominant | |
| 罢黜百家，独尊儒术 | bà chù bǎi jiā , dú zūn rú shù | Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology | |
| 显性基因 | xiǎn xìng jī yīn | dominant gene | |
| 利手 | lì shǒu | dominant hand / handedness | |
| 惯用手 | guàn yòng shǒu | dominant hand | |
| 施虐者 | shī nu:è zhě | abuser / (in sadomasochism) dominant partner | |
| 修昔底德陷阱 | Xiū xī dǐ dé xiàn jǐng | Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power) | |
| 入关学 | rù guān xué | theory proposed in 2019 on Chinese social media, centering on the idea of China replacing the United States as the dominant nation in a new world order, drawing an analogy with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty, achieved after the Qing army entered China via the Shanhai Pass 入關|入关[ru4 guan1] | |
