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  *支* | 支* | *支
to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
HSK 3
army / ground forces
HSK 6
(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway / (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) / (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
HSK 2
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  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
main force / main strength of an army
HSK 7-9
to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:
HSK 7-9
to expand (esp. by new recruitment) / to increase the army / to augment
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  *师* | 师* | *师
teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops
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  *军* | 军* | *军
(bound form) army / military
internet troll army; online propaganda army
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
Mahdi army, Iraqi Shia armed militia led by Moqtada Sadr
the (communist) party and the army together (idiom)
middle ranking officer in Chinese army / lieutenant colonel / commander
military exercise / army drill
army / armed forces / troops / force / unit / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
column; file (formation of people) (CL:,) / PLA army corps (1946–1949)
army / main forces
high ranking officer in Chinese army / colonel
mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army
to dispatch an army / to send troops
new (army) recruit
to patrol (police, army or navy)
HSK 7-9
volunteer army
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
People's Liberation Army
lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men
HSK 7-9
before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach
regular army / standing army
army
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
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  *旅* | 旅* | *旅
trip / travel / to travel / brigade (army)
lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom) / fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
army-civilian / military-masses / military-civilian
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
army rank / military rank
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
private (army)
Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom) / fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off
junior ranking officer in Chinese army / major / lieutenant commander
political commissar (within the army)
to drill troops / army training
US army / US armed forces
a flag carrier (army) / ensign
lieutenant (navy) / first lieutenant (army) / subaltern
Russian army
army, navy, and air force
Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan / cf Rectification campaign 整風運動|整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957
National Revolutionary Army
corporal (army)
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
Swiss Army knife
Japanese army / Japanese troops
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
invading army
Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
volunteer army
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
(of army officers) to be on duty for the week
army orderly
Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general. (idiom)
(army, police) patrol
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
Army Day (August 1)
to enlist / to be in the army
to serve in the army / in active service
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
odd job man / army orderly
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
army, navy and air force
allied armies
National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯)
rebel army
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
navy and army / military force
the Crusades; Crusader army / (fig.) crusade; militant campaign for a cause
to enlist / to serve in the army
in command of the army
Jöchi (c. 1182–1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan's four sons
army grouping / collective army
puppet army
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  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)

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