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champion
HSK 5
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
Scout (youth organization)
child soldiers / juvenile militia
army / ground forces
HSK 6
navy
HSK 6
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
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  *軍* | 軍* | *軍
(bound form) army / military
Russian army
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
People's Liberation Army
to usurp the military
(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
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 lead troups / (fig.) to lead / leading
HSK 7-9
Scout (youth organization) / see also 童子軍|童子军
(archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军)
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
Japanese army / Japanese troops
important general / generalissimo
rapid advance / forced march
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
disarmament
top general / commander-in-chief
invading army
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
the (communist) party and the army together (idiom)
north China army (esp. during the warlords period)
armament / to expand armed forces
National Revolutionary Army
navy and army / military force
the Red Turbans, peasant rebellion at the end of the Yuan dynasty
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
army grouping / collective army
the Crusades; Crusader army / (fig.) crusade; militant campaign for a cause
government army
to station or garrison troops / garrison
third in a race / bronze medalist
whole army
puppet army
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
(of troops) to march
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
Royal Canadian Navy
People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces) (abbr. for 中國人民解放軍|中国人民解放军)
invincible army
rearguard
the Northern Expeditionary Army
Rocket Force, branch of the PLA responsible for tactical and strategic missiles
US army / US armed forces
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
army, navy and air force
the Qing army
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
field army
French army
Black Flag Army
(old) government troops
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
"Internet Navy"; paid Internet posters; astroturfers
volunteer army
the army of Yellow Turbans, a peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
army / main forces
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
(Tw) professional soldier
(military) to march; to advance / (fig.) to enter and compete in a new market, field, region or arena
(common place name)
(military) reinforcements
total annihilation
expeditionary force / army on a distant expedition
Mahdi army, Iraqi Shia armed militia led by Moqtada Sadr
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
group championship
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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)
border guard / frontier army
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
Israeli soldiers
Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty
Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
defenders
Red Guards
imperial guard
nuclear disarmament
regular army / standing army
navy and air force
the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors)
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
ally / allied forces
routed troops

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