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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: 件, 樁｜桩 | HSK 5 |
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| | to fight a battle / to go to war | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | weapons of war / arms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476-220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙｜前赵 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙｜后赵 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms | |
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| | Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄｜战国七雄 / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897 / Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國｜大韩民国 / surname Han | |
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| | opportunity in a battle / fighter aircraft / war secret | |
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| | South Korea (Republic of Korea) / Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄｜战国七雄 / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897 | |
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| | war chariot / tank | |
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| | after the war / postwar | |
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| | war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) | |
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| | war / to wage war | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | to take prisoner / prisoner of war | |
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| | danger spot / Jedi (in Star Wars) | |
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| | to fight / fight / war / battle | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC) | |
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| | Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima | |
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| | (of a sports competition or match) to commence / (of a war or battle) to break out / to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera) / to brawl / to come to blows | |
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| | World War II | |
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| | Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990 | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) | |
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| | (arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war | |
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| | lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫｜合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | the flames of war | |
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| | School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names | |
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| | prisoner of war | |
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| | Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子 (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子 (369-286 BC) | |
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| | social upheaval caused by war or famine etc | |
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| | a book on the art of war | |
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| | weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle | |
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| | to die in childhood / war dead | |
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| | Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子｜吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | iron and blood; (fig.) weapons and war; bloody conflict / (of a person) iron-willed and ready to die | |
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| | (US-Soviet) Cold War | |
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| | Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers | |
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| | civil war | |
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| | Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷｜离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭｜楚辞 | |
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| | Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子 | |
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| | to go to war / to engage in war | |
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| | surname Chu / abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 and Hunan 湖南省 provinces together / Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722-221 BC) | |
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| | art of war / military strategy and tactics | |
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| | hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派｜鸽派, doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers | |
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| | Han Fei, also known as Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子 (c. 280-233 BC), Legalist philosopher of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | prisoner of war / to capture / to take prisoner / (old) northern barbarian / slave | |
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| | written war challenge | |
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| | (military) to go off to war / (sports) to compete | |
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| | to start a war / to make war / to battle against | |
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| | to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) | |
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| | air war / air warfare | |
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| | the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | a war flag / an army banner | |
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| | to declare war | |
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| | Mozi (c. 470-391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | Ministry of War (in imperial China) | |
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| | Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國｜战国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉｜魏晋 (3rd century AD) | |
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| | (literary) to be routed (in a war) / to suffer defeat (in sports etc) | |
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| | spoils of war | |
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| | capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states / CL: 根 | |
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| | war preparation | |
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| | Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong | |
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| | chaos of war | |
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| | to fight / to wage war | |
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| | Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家｜纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
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| | soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war | |
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| | Holy war / jihad | |
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| | to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose | |
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| | antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound) / to fight / to wage war | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war) / to send back | |
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| | war criminal | |
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| | trade war | |
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| | Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states) | |
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| | a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC | |
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| | the Saint of War (i.e. the deified Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽) | |
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| | lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants | |
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| | war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) | |
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| | to reconcile / to mediate / to bring warring parties to agreement / to arbitrate | |
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| | the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家｜诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | to sprout up; to flourish; (of war etc) to break out / rapid growth | |
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| | war exploits / (fig.) heroic contribution | |
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| | Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One | |
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| | the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC) | |
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| | warhorse / armed forces; troops / (fig.) war; warfare | |
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| | a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956 | |
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| | soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war | |
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| | to change sides in a war / turncoat | |
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| | place of origin / source (of a war or a social movement) | |
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| | 秦越人 (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills, nicknamed Bian Que after the earliest known Chinese physician allegedly from the 黃帝｜黄帝 era | |
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| | prepared against war / to prepare for war / warmongering | |
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| | fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
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