"Protagonist" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 主角 | zhǔ jué | leading role / lead / protagonist |   |
| 局中人 | jú zhōng rén | participant / protagonist / a player (in this affair) | |
| 主人公 | zhǔ rén gōng | hero (of a novel or film) / main protagonist | |
| 女主人公 | nu:3 zhǔ rén gōng | heroine (of a novel or film) / main female protagonist | |
| 孔乙己 | Kǒng Yǐ jǐ | Kong Yiji, protagonist of a short story of the same name by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] depicting the life of a poor, unsuccessful scholar who clings to his Confucian ideals despite his dismal circumstances | |
| 杨过 | Yáng Guò | Yang Guo, protagonist of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" 神鵰俠侶|神雕侠侣[Shen2diao1 Xia2lu:3] / (used jocularly as a verb "to have tested positive", since 楊|杨[Yang2] and 陽|阳[yang2] are homonyms) | |
