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HSK
serviceman / soldier / military personnel
HSK 5
champion
HSK 5
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
military affairs / (attributive) military
HSK 6
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
armed forces; troops / CL: , 個|个
HSK 6
warship / military naval vessel / CL:
HSK 6
navy
HSK 6
army / ground forces
HSK 6
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
officer (military)
HSK 7-9
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
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
to lead troups / (fig.) to lead / leading
HSK 7-9
lieutenant
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
military aid
rearguard
Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor
(common place name)
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)
Central Military Committee (CMC)
military uniform
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(bound form) army / military
military strength / military force(s)
military exercise / war game
to do military training
(bird species of China) lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
military prostitute
serviceman's wife / wives of military personnel
invincible army
barracks / army camp
border guard / frontier army
military
to withdraw troops / to retreat
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
soldier / noncommssioned officer (NCO)
demilitarized zone
Military Commission of the Communist Party Central Committee
People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces)
army rank / military rank
National Revolutionary Army
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
lit. to form an army / to set up (team, group, band, organization etc) / to found / opening (ceremony) / to commission (arms system, naval vessel) / to graduate from an apprenticeship
to enlist / to serve in the army
(of troops) to march
military exercises
military aircraft / secret plan / Privy Council during the Qing dynasty
rebel army
military doctor
geographical area of command / (PLA) military district
army-civilian / military-masses / military-civilian
army / main forces
corps / legion
third in a race / bronze medalist
US army / US armed forces
allied forces; friendly troops
military knife / saber
(military) meritorious service
allied forces
Rocket Force, branch of the PLA responsible for tactical and strategic missiles
the military and the police / military alert (announcing the approach of the enemy)
whole army
navy and air force
military band
runner-up
Japanese army / Japanese troops
(military) arms / armaments
military clique / junta / warlord
to station or garrison troops / garrison
(military) reinforcements
army and government
allied armies
defenders
land battle chess, Chinese board game similar to Stratego
Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south
warhorse; cavalry horse / troops
(old) military counselor / (coll.) trusted adviser
(military) troop morale / (fig.) team morale
(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
military situation / military intelligence
imperial guard
volunteer army
naval port / naval base
military power
a night march
provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
enemy troops / hostile forces / CL:
to emerge as a new force to be reckoned with (idiom)
arms sales
running of armed forces / military management / to govern armed forces / to direct troops
total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout
army
(for) military use / military application
British army
lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom) / fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
military expenditure
martial law

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