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champion
HSK 5
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
navy
HSK 6
army / ground forces
HSK 6
to lead troups / (fig.) to lead / leading
HSK 7-9
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
to march / to advance
(common place name)
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  *軍* | 軍* | *軍
(bound form) army / military
to station or garrison troops / garrison
whole army
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces)
(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
army / main forces
crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades
volunteer army
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
important general / generalissimo
the Northern Expeditionary Army
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
third in a race / bronze medalist
to enlist / to serve in the army
allied armies
runner-up
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
enemy troops / hostile forces / CL:
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
expeditionary force / army on a distant expedition
National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯)
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
defenders
regular army / standing army
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort
imperial guard
(of troops) to march
invincible army
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
puppet army
running of armed forces / military management / to govern armed forces / to direct troops
rapid advance / forced march
armament / to expand armed forces
to join up / to enlist (e.g. in the military)
National Revolutionary Army
Scout (youth organization)
child soldiers / juvenile militia
rearguard
to banish (to an army post, as a punishment)
Cub Scout
nickname of Han dynasty general Li Guang 李廣|李广
army, navy, air force
ally / allied forces
total annihilation
People's Liberation Army
field army
border guard / frontier army
a night march
Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion
group championship
disarmament
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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
imperial guard
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
rebel army
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)
allied forces; friendly troops
(archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军)
volunteer army
volunteer army
Dianjun district of Yichang city 宜昌市, Hubei
allied forces
army grouping / collective army
Black Flag Army
nuclear disarmament
British army
provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
invading army
(military) reinforcements
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
(of troops) to be utterly routed and dispersed
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
(old) government troops
army of Zhao 趙國|赵国 during the Warring States
Japanese army / Japanese troops
Red Guards
government army
US army / US armed forces
navy and air force
army, navy and air force
the Qing army
Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty
navy and army / military force
the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors)

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