Chinese Vocabulary
老板
boss
老板
lǎobǎn3rd tone
- Pinyin
- lǎobǎn
- Strokes
- 14
- In episodes
- 2
Stroke order for 老板
老板 is written with 14 strokes (老: 6, 板: 8). The animation replays automatically.
Usage
公司有一个老板 = the company has a boss.
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老板 appears in 2 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
He Fired 900 People on One Zoom Call. This Year He Was Fired Himself — and Now He Wants the Job Back.老板 spoken at natural speedbeginnerTwo decades later, The Devil Wears Prada gets a sequel — and the decline of print magazines becomes the story's new throughline.老板 spoken at natural speedmedium
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