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


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