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soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
military engineer
military police
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
private (army)
troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
to send troops
to dispatch troops
lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter
a scout / spy
Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)
enlisted sailor in navy
to withdraw troops / to retreat
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
cavalry
to drill troops / army training
mercenary / hired gun
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
new (army) recruit
army deserter
routed troops; defeated and dispersed troops
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
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
elite troops
guard / bodyguard
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
to dispatch an army / to send troops
to levy troops / recruitment
to review troops / military parade
lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
(military) messenger / orderly
to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces
to send troops
(literary) to raise an army; to dispatch troops
lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war
volunteer soldier / CL:
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
sentinel
to lead troops
bugler / trumpeter (military)
to deploy troops / to mass troops
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
to train troops
relief troops; reinforcements
people's militia / militia / militiaman
paratrooper
massive military force
reinforcement
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
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)
paratroopers
to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over
private first class (army rank)
loose and disorganized soldiers / stragglers / fig. a loner
to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops
artillery soldier / gunner
army orderly
hidden troops / ambush
same as 綠營|绿营, Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
in a state of war
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
troops deployed to mislead the enemy
to recruit soldiers
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
to call for reinforcements / to bring in troops
archer / infantry armed with crossbow
guard / garrison soldier
superfluous troops
individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
child soldier
stretcher bearer (military)
PLA military personnel who specialize in literary or artistic pursuits
Manchurian soldier
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
commando / special forces soldier
Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
rebel soldier
mercenary / hired gun


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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