| 教授 | jiào shòu | professor / to instruct / to lecture on / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |   |
| 副教授 | fù jiào shòu | associate professor (university post) | |
| 授衔 | shòu xián | rank of professor / academic title | |
| 客座教授 | kè zuò jiào shòu | visiting professor / guest professor | |
| 指导教授 | zhǐ dǎo jiào shòu | adviser / advising professor | |
| 田长霖 | Tián Cháng lín | Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997 | |
| 曹靖华 | Cáo Jìng huá | Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist | |
| 李建成 | Lǐ Jiàn chéng | Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 / in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy | |
| 荣誉教授 | róng yù jiào shòu | emeritus professor | |
| 洋员 | yáng yuán | Westerner employed in Qing China (as professor or military advisor etc) | |
| 甘巴里 | Gān bā lǐ | Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007 | |
| 郭泉 | Guō Quán | Guo Quan, formerly Professor of Nanjing Normal University, sacked after founding New People's Party of China 中國新民黨|中国新民党 | |
| 韦慕庭 | Wéi Mù tíng | Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University | |
| 名誉教授 | míng yù jiào shòu | emeritus professor / professor emeritus | |
| 柯P | Kē P | Professor Ko, nickname for Ko Wen-je 柯文哲[Ke1 Wen2 zhe2] | |
