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fighter / soldier / warrior / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
serviceman / soldier / military personnel
HSK 5
tongue / CL: 個|个 / enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *屯* | 屯* | *屯
to station (soldiers) / to store up / village
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
foot soldier / minor figure / a nobody / (chess) pawn
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
officers and soldiers
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty
Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *骑* | 骑* | *骑
(Tw) saddle horse / mounted soldier
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伍* | 伍* | *伍
squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
soldier / noncommssioned officer (NCO)
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
guard (i.e. group of soldiers)
(old) combat robe / soldier's uniform / (sports) team jersey / team shirt
mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion's body, often with hoofs, wings and tail / also written 辟邪 / fig. valiant soldier
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
artillery soldier / gunner
individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
jacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back indicating unit affiliation
mutual support between the military and the people – specifically, support provided by local people and authorities for the military, and preferential treatment of the families of soldiers, on the one hand, and the military's support for the government and care for the general public, on the other
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *饷* | 饷* | *饷
soldier's pay
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
to recruit soldiers
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword
soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
soldier / private (army)
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
insignificant soldier (idiom) / a nobody / nonentity
ordinary soldier
soldiers / troops
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
to troop (of soldiers etc) / convoy
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur
pay and provisions for soldiers
soldiers / troops
lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army
fellow soldier
army riffraff / army ruffian / soldier of fortune
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty / to bring to negotiated surrender
soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
(idiom) (of soldiers) highly disciplined, not committing the slightest offense against civilians
lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well-prepared forces / preparations for war are in an advanced state
casualties / wounded soldiers
General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)
pawn (i.e. foot soldier) / servant / lackey (of malefactor)
soldier ant / dinergate
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
fellow soldier / comrade / companion / intimate friend
commando / special forces soldier
elite soldiers / a crack force
rebel soldier
military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卆* | 卆* | *卆
variant of , soldier / to die
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
(Tw) professional soldier
guard / garrison soldier
traveler (on a long journey) / participant in an expedition / garrison soldier / new recruit
communist bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
child soldiers / juvenile militia
traveler / soldier on expedition / soldier taking part in battle
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran (abbr. for 榮譽國民|荣誉国民)
(coll.) soldier boy
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
white bandit (i.e. Nationalist soldier)
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
garrison soldier
The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)
Manchurian soldier
to garrison; to defend (a frontier) / soldier garrisoned at a frontier
volunteer soldier / CL:
to put in detention (a soldier, a pupil)
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
soldier (from the two components of the character) (derog.)
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
Manchurian foot soldier
low-ranking soldier; (by extension) low-level employee
soldier (in battle)
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
red bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
horseman / rider / mounted soldier
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
Israeli soldiers
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

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